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My keyboard came with a tab key, so I don't worry about my commands having short names.

Until you have five commands which all use the prefix `sort-incoming-` and then three commands named `sort-incoming-hourly` and `sort-incoming-monthly` etc.

It would be nice to have camel-case completion in the shell, i.e. have “SIH” be completed to “SortIncomingHourly” and “SIM” to “SortIncomingMonthly”, etc. (only for upper-case characters). That way one could get more mileage out of the possible character combinations.

Well, not exactly tab completion, but I have `fzf`[0] tied to my history search.

That allows me to type `soriloco`, punch ctrl+r and be prompted with `some ridiculously long command` (if, of course, I've run it before).

Combined with infinite history this trick has saved me a bunch of typing and even proper remembering. :P

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Yes, fuzzy matching is the way to go. Tab completion isn’t good enough any more.

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