Vim has ^X^F to complete the filename at point. If you type /etc/ho ^X^F, it'll offer you /etc/hosts

Is that something you can do with Emacs? I'm assuming helm is involved, but I can't find a reference in the docs.

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I can do ^X^F and then ^U^U^C i in then helm buffer

not as easy as in Vim though 🙂

@pesterhazy typing TAB in emacs -q runs minibuffer-complete in the Find file: prompt for me

@kliph, that doesn't work for me, either in emacs -q -nw (emacs 25.1.1) nor in my default spacemacs

oh, you mean after typing ^X^F?

yeah, but I want to insert the filename in the current buffer

e.g. I type cp /etc/ho when writing a .sh file

and now want to complete that filename

have a look at https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertFileName , I'm not aware of an easy way to do this in plain old emacs

thanks I'll have a look

I imagine you're in shell-script-mode. If you're using some sort of completion library, you could also look into enabling it in that mode

yeah but I like it generally too (imagine requiring a relative path in javascript)

I'd imagine that you could configure it more generally too 😄

C-h a tells me there is a helm-complete-file-name-at-point command. It seems to do the action in your example… it gives completions for /etc/ho as /etc/hosts

that's pretty good