Re: [ILUG] vim filename completion

From: Donncha O Caoimh (donncha at domain tradesignals.com)
Date: Tue 16 Jul 2002 - 11:16:41 IST


What you could do is open the directory the file is in and that'll display the
contents of that directory which you can browse.

ie.
:split .
:split /etc/

This works in Vim 6, not sure about earlier versions.
Take a look at http://vim.sf.net/ for lots more good stuff!

Donncha.

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 11:10, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?



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