bash tab completion without variable expansion?

bash variables expansion bash-completion

You might try using zsh instead of bash. In zsh,

vim $i[tab]

expands $i to a relative path

(Also Oh My Zsh is great for customizing zsh)

bash variables expansion bash-completion

I am not sure which other settings you use in your bash startup scripts, but for me the following bash command does the trick:

complete -r -v

bash variables expansion bash-completion

Usingshopt -u progcompworked for me, after this the tab did not expand variables anymore. A shopt dochttps://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html

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