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brakjoller@hotmail.com (Barman Brakjoller) writes:

> That works ok, eshell completes the filename. But what if I want to
> rename that file to long_file_name.jpeg? This does not work as I
> want:
>
> ~/tmp/esh $ mv long_<pressing TAB here completes the filename> lo<TAB
> again, nothing happens, eshell just beeps at me>
>
> I guess eshell is trying to be smart here, but in this case it is too
> smart for my taste... :)

Use C-c C-y to re-insert the final argument of the current line.  In
general, Eshell tries not to complete an argument twice, since it is
so rarely what you want to do.

John