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added tab completion to REPL docs
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bjarthur committed Aug 9, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -161,3 +161,20 @@ The Julia REPL makes great use of key bindings. Several control-key bindings we
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| Delete, ``^D`` | Forward delete one character (when buffer has text)|
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Tab completion
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In both the Julian and help modes of the REPL, one can enter the first few characters of a function or type and then press the tab key to get a list all matches::

julia> stri
stride strides string stringmime strip

julia> Stri
StridedArray StridedVecOrMat String
StridedMatrix StridedVector

The tab key is also used to substitute LaTeX math symbols with their unicode equivalents::

julia> \alpha[TAB]
julia> α

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