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When using roslaunch it starts all nodes thinking they are in your ~/.ros/ directory. So you can create a symlink in your ~/.ros/ directory to the actual file you want to load. Then set your arg to look at the symlink by default. When creating the symlink you will be able to use tab completion.

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