diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 8a697fa..ce1340f 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -202,6 +202,107 @@ func populateList() {
 	}
 }
 
+func filterStringSlice(ss []string, fv string) []string {
+    var rs []string
+    for _, s := range ss {
+        if strings.HasPrefix(s, fv) {
+            rs = append(rs, s)
+        }
+    }
+    return rs
+}
+
+func longestCommonPrefix(ss []string) string {
+    // cover the case where the slice has no or one members
+    switch len(ss) {
+        case 0:
+            return ""
+        case 1:
+            return ss[0]
+    }
+    // all strings are compared by bytes here forward (TBD unicode normalization?)
+    // establish min, max lenth members of the slice by iterating over the members
+    min, max := ss[0], ss[0]
+    for _, s := range ss[1:] {
+        switch {
+            case s < min:
+                min = s
+            case s > max:
+                max = s
+        }
+    }
+    // then iterate over the characters from min to max, as soon as chars don't match return
+    for i := 0; i < len(min) && i < len(max); i++ {
+        if min[i] != max[i] {
+            return min[:i]
+        }
+    }
+    // to cover the case where all members are equal, just return one
+    return min
+}
+
+func stringRemainder(aStr, bStr string) string {
+    var long, short string
+    //figure out which string is longer
+    switch {
+    case len(aStr) < len (bStr):
+        short = aStr
+        long = bStr
+    default:
+        short = bStr
+        long = aStr
+    }
+    // iterate over the strings using an external iterator so we don't lose the value
+    i := 0
+    for i < len(short) && i < len(long) {
+        if short[i] != long[i] {
+            // the strings aren't equal so don't return anything
+            return ""
+        }
+    i++
+    }
+    // return whatever's left of the longer string
+    return long[i:]
+}
+
+func generateTabCompletionSlice(inputWord string) []string {
+    // create a slice to hold the values
+    var firstSlice []string
+    // iterate over all the conversation results
+    for _, s := range channels {
+        if s.MembersType == keybase.TEAM {
+            // its a team so add the topic name as a possible tab completion
+            firstSlice = append(firstSlice, s.TopicName)
+            firstSlice = append(firstSlice, s.Name)
+        } else {
+            // its a user, so clean the name and append the users name as a possible tab completion
+            firstSlice = append(firstSlice, cleanChannelName(s.Name))
+        }
+    }
+    // now return the resultSlice which contains all that are prefixed with inputWord
+    resultSlice := filterStringSlice(firstSlice, inputWord)
+    return resultSlice
+}
+
+func handleTab() error {
+    inputString, err := getInputString("Input")
+    if err != nil {
+        return err
+    } else {
+        // if you successfully get an input string, grab the last word from the string
+        ss := strings.Split(inputString, " ")
+        s := ss[len(ss)-1]
+        // now call get the list of all possible cantidates that have that as a prefix
+        resultSlice := generateTabCompletionSlice(s)
+        lcp := longestCommonPrefix(resultSlice)
+        if lcp != "" {
+            remainder := stringRemainder(s, lcp)
+            writeToView("Input", remainder)
+        }
+    }
+    return nil
+}
+
 func clearView(viewName string) {
 	g.Update(func(g *gocui.Gui) error {
 		inputView, err := g.View(viewName)
@@ -217,6 +318,20 @@ func clearView(viewName string) {
 
 }
 
+func writeToView(viewName string, message string) {
+    g.Update(func(g *gocui.Gui) error {
+        updatingView, err := g.View(viewName)
+        if err != nil {
+            return err
+        } else {
+            for _, c := range message {
+                updatingView.EditWrite(c)
+            }
+        }
+        return nil
+    })
+}
+
 func printToView(viewName string, message string) {
 	g.Update(func(g *gocui.Gui) error {
 		updatingView, err := g.View(viewName)
@@ -331,6 +446,12 @@ func initKeybindings() error {
 		}); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+    if err := g.SetKeybinding("Input", gocui.KeyTab, gocui.ModNone,
+        func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
+            return handleTab()
+        }); err != nil {
+        return err
+    }
 	if err := g.SetKeybinding("Edit", gocui.KeyEnter, gocui.ModNone,
 		func(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
 			popupView("Chat")