Enable filename tab completion everywhere?

Hi,

is there a way of enabling filename tab completion everywhere (as soon as I start entering a string), not just when filling in certain function's arguments? In most other programmers' editors and IDEs (vim, emacs, IPython, Eclipse, ...) this is a standard feature, and saves a lot of time. In Matlab, it only seems to be available for select functions, which is a pain.

Best, Tobias

[neutral_bias]

I'm using 2016a. I'm aware of the help article you are referring to. It mentions that Matlab tab completion helps with completing file names, which is true -- but only for certain functions, like save() and load(). I'd like tab completion to offer filenames whenever I start typing a string, not just in the few functions it is explicitly enabled for.

Here's some documentation about how to enable tab completion for additional functions, but this looks very tedious. Also, this method doesn't allow enabling it for all strings, irrespective of whether they are function arguments or just variables: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/setting-desktop-tab-completions

[neutral_bias]

I'm talking about completing file names using tab completion. Not function names or language keywords (I know matlab does that). Just what e.g. the bash shell does when you type something like

ls /somedir/a<Tab><Tab>

In this case, bash would offer all possible file name completions that start with "a" in the directory /somedir. If there is only one possible completion, bash would complete your input.

[neutral_bias]

So, to make this more clear, what I'd like to have is that if I define a variable to a string constant (or give a string constant as a function argument), matlab tab completion should offer me the file names that match what I've typed so far. So if I type this, for example:

infilename = '/somedir/a<Tab>

... then I'd like Matlab to open a popup menu and show me all the files in /somedir that start with "a".

This behaviour already exists in Matlab, but only for certain arguments to certain built-in functions, like the first argument to load(). If you do this:

load('/somedir/a<Tab>

... you get the popup that I described above (obviously, if you're on windows, replace "/somedir" with "c:\somedir"). I'd just like to get it whenever I type a string constant, not just for certain arguments to certain functions.

Thanks,

'bias

[Trenton]

This used to be possible, as published at undocumentedmatlab. However, I can't find the file they reference TC.xml in 2016a. I also didn't see anything similar after a cursory grep, suggested by stackOverflow. I too would like to be able to this, but I think they have intentionally made it difficult.