wish: filename and directory completion in the command line

[serjayes]

During typing the command, if the tab is pressed during writing some parameter, it would be very nice to have the filename completion functioning like in the command prompt (see example). The trick would be for the command line editor to activate this only if there's non-whitespace character before cursor, otherwise to perform file list switch like it is now.

Example:

I'm in c:\ folder and start typing

cd Pr

then I press tab and get

cd "Program files".

Additional tabs get the other possibilities, just like in Command prompt in windows (on win2k it's activated with:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"CompletionChar"=dword:09
"PathCompletionChar"=dword:09) Especially nice thing is that this way a navigation can proceed further -- if I delete the " after program files and continue with \a than it will cycle through all folders starting with a in the program files folder etc.

[djk]

There was already a poll about it:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=385