How can I make bash tab completion behave like vim tab completion and cycle through matching matches?

Question

I\'ve been meaning to find a solution for this for YEARS.

I am sooo much more productive in vim when manipulating files than bash for this reason.

If I have<

Answer 1

Thanks to @sth I found what works best for me:

To keep normal bash tab completion, and then use ctl-f to cycle through when needed using menu-complete

put this in your .inputrc file:

"\C-f": menu-complete