Incorrect Auto-Completion When Using Tab

[JackW6809]

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Steps to reproduce

Typing ip shows ipconfig as a suggested auto-completion. However, when pressing TAB it auto-completes it to ipal

Expected behavior

Pressing TAB button when presented with auto-complete should fill in the rest with what we are presented with.

Actual behavior

Pressing TAB button when presented with auto-complete instead fills it to a random cmdlet it thinks is correct, which is what happens on PowerShell 5.1.

Error details

No response

Environment data

PS C:\Users\jwillis> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.2
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22631
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

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[MartinGC94]

That's not tab completion, it's prediction. The standard way to accept predictions is the right arrow key, you can bind it to Tab like this: Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Function AcceptSuggestion -Chord Tab but then you won't have your standard tab completion so I'd advice against it.

[jhoneill]

You're seeing IPConfig because that was the most recent command beginning with IP that you used.
If I type IP I get IPMO module name

As @MartinGC94 says tab cycles through all commands beginning IP in alphabetical order, right arrow pulls back the whole of the line by default (so If you had ipconfig /flushdns you'd get the switch)
In my profile I've set ctrl right arrow to pull back a word at a time, which IMHO makes the feature significantly more useful.

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