On Aug 28, 6:21 am, Oliver Stieber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just sudo mounted my hard drive to get my music off of it, and then vi > /etc/fstab so that it come up at boot time. > and I had the urge to hit tab to complete the entries in the fstba file as I > do with bash or many other things. > > so then I thought, well if bash already has this feature, how hard would it > be to write an extension to vi, so that vi can look at some templates that > define completion equivalences for various configuration files or whatever. >
If I understand what you're saying, in this specific case you were looking for filename completion, but also completion in general. In Vim, in insert mode, CTRL-X followed by CTRL-F will go into filename completion. On the command-line, TAB will do this for you. If you want other kinds of completion in insert mode, there are several. See ins-completion (the entire long section) for details. -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
