On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, L. C. Robinson wrote: > When I have a long filename to type, I just enter the first few > letters, hit the tab key, and zsh completes the filename for me, > with any spaces escaped (preceded by) a backslash. If my first > few letters aren't uniq for the files, the completion is made up > to end of the part which identical, and I am presented with a > list of the matching files. Then I can add a letter or two > followed by another tab, or just keeping hitting tab to cycle > through the choices. There are options to set, (in a shell > startup file, such as .zshrc), to obtain just about any variation > on this behavior you can imagine. > bash has the same feature, although I still consider spaces in filenames to be annoying and avoid them.