On one hand I use tab-completion on the command line all the time. I even go as far as creating my own -terribly incomplete- completion functions in bash for commands that I use often

On the other hand, when programming I don't use tab-completion -maybe mostly because it's not so easy to get in my preferred editor. But in this case my mind is going to argue that if you need tab completion to know your variables you're screwed anyway and should redesign. Although, somewhere my mind seems to acknowledge that tab-completion for an API would be useful. Indeed, I always have an ipython session nearby to play with the API and read docstrings.

Maybe I should take the time once to sort out my emacs so it can do all of that too.

Confusing