Pressing ESC then * will insert in the command line the results of the autocompletion.
It's hard to explain but if you look the sample output or do
echo ESC *
you will understand quickly.
By the way, few reminders about ESC :
- Hold ESC does the same thing as tab tab
- 'ESC .' inserts the last argument of last command (can be done many times in order to get the last argument of all previous commands)
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