[ILUG] vim filename completion

[John Gaughan]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been searching around the manual, google and the vim site but can't
> find anything on this.
> 
> When opening a file from within vim you get a type of tab completion of
> filenames which I've seen on some shells.  Specifically that when you hit
> tab it completes with the entirety of the first file matching what you've
> already entered and by hitting tab again you can cycle through the other
> matches.  I daresay there's a termf or this but I don't know it.
> 
> Anyway, the default bash completion is different, ie to complete the
> filename as far as it can without picking a file and then display a list of
> the files matching.  I prefer this, particularly in dirs with lots of files.
> 
> Anyone know how to change this behaviour in vim?  Am I right in assuming
> you must be able to?

You can change the default behaviour of completion in Vim with the
'wildmode' option.  With the default settings though you can get a list
of possible matches with <CTRL-D>.  There's more on Vim's commandline
completion in the cmdline-completion section of the help.  

You can also use the completion to complete help items which makes
finding info in the manual easier.

John.

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John Gaughan, Systems Administrator
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