A. S. Budden wrote:
Dear all,
When entering commands on the command line, I often use the completion
facility by pressing tab. I have the wildmode set to longest:full. I
have noticed a 'feature' that I find a little frustrating, however. If
I type:
:help preser<TAB>
it offers me the choices:
:preserve 'preserveindent' 'nopreserveindent'
but doesn't complete the largest common part (preserve). Similarly, if
I then type vei and press <TAB>, it presents me with the latter two
options but doesn't (as I would expect) complete to preserveindent.
Is this because of the quotes (due to it being a setting) or the 'no'
variation or is it because of something else? Is there any way to get
round it?
Many thanks in advance,
Al
Try
:set wildmode=longest:full,full
Note: In the case you mention, there is no common part: "preser[ve]" appears
at a different point in each match. But with the above setting,
:h 'ara
gets completed to
:h 'arab
with the following menu of completions on the bottom statusline:
'arab' 'arabic' 'arabicshape'
Notice that the common part is at the same position in all, and the command
_does_ get completed to the longest common match.
Best regards,
Tony.
