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From: =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Subject: Idea: *.p<TAB> completion
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:10:21 +0800
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$ ls *.pdf
a.pdf  b.pdf
$ diff *.p<TAB>

At this point <TAB> should complete "*.pdf".

Or maybe as a bonus it could complete "a.pdf  b.pdf" via a different key.