powershell.exe tab completion - list alternatives?

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Published on 2010-05-14T17:28:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 2:04 UTC
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I've never really used PowerShell before, and playing with it a bit, it looks like it uses cmd.exe's style of tab completion (fill in the first likely candidate, and then you can use tab to cycle through other alternatives). I'd much prefer the way e.g. bash works, where if there are multiple candidates, it shows a list of them.

Is there an easy way to turn this on, by any chance?

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