How to configure emacs to have it complete the path automatically like vim?

Question

I have been a vim user for several years. Now I want to try Emacs for some reasons. I use the path auto-completition functionality(C-c, C-f) a lot in Vim. So I am wondering

Answer 1

Notes of interest:

;;  For the real hippie-expand enthusiast: A macro that makes it
;;  possible to use many functions like hippie-expand, but with
;;  different try-functions-lists.
;;  Usage is for example:
;;    (fset 'my-complete-file (make-hippie-expand-function
;;                             '(try-complete-file-name-partially
;;                               try-complete-file-name)))
;;    (fset 'my-complete-line (make-hippie-expand-function
;;                             '(try-expand-line
;;                               try-expand-line-all-buffers)))
;;
;;;###autoload
(defmacro make-hippie-expand-function (try-list &optional verbose)
  "Construct a function similar to `hippie-expand'.
Make it use the expansion functions in TRY-LIST.  An optional second
argument VERBOSE non-nil makes the function verbose."

You could presumably utilise this to generate a list of possible filename completions.

edit: Actually, that doesn't get you any further than the other question. I'll keep it here, as it seems a slightly nicer approach.