How can I make bash tab completion behave like vim tab completion?

I've been meaning to find a solution for this for YEARS.

I am sooo much more productive in vim when manipulating files than bash for this reason.

if I have

file_12390983421
 file_12391983421
 file_12340983421
 file_12390986421
 

In bash and type file_1->tab , it obviously lists:

file_12390983421 file_12391983421 file_12340983421 file_12390986421
 

And this is a horrible boar and painful to work with.

The same sequence in vim will loop through the files one at a time.

Please someone tell me how to do this in bash, or if there is another shell that can do this, I'll switch tomorrow.

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