The default setting, wildmode=full , highlights (if anything) what it
actually completes. If you repeatedly hit the right-arrow key, it will
cycle through all full matches and what you had typed. See ":help
'wildmode'" for the various other possibilities. Whatever you see
highlighted on the statusline, what is filled-in is what you see on the
command-line. If "longest" is included, it's not necessarily a full
match. The purpose of that is to allow incremental completion.
Yes, I understand the purpose and usage of wildmode. My suggestion is
that the wildmode 'longest' should behave like the completeopt
'longest' where an entry is only highlight if that highlighted text is
actually inserted into the buffer, or command line in this case.
As of now , the behavior of 'longest' is inconsistent across the two
vim options ('completeopt' and 'wildmenu').
--
eric
