Is there a way to make bash more TAB friendly?
Solution 1:
To get the ‘cycle through possible completions’ behavior, copy the following into an appropriate place in your .bashrc file:
[[ $- = *i* ]] && bind TAB:menu-complete
Also, bash-completion provides many extra kinds of completion besides just pathname completion. For example, menu-complete works fine with Git's bash-completion module to complete command names, option names, etc.