On 26/10/08 02:22, yitzchas wrote:
>
> Greetings:
>
> Under FreeBSD I was able to SSH in using Putty, and use Tab for autocomplete
> when assigning settings, e.g.:
>
> :set nonum<TAB>
>
> would autocomplete to 'nonumber'
>
> Under Ubuntu, I'm getting a ^I instead of the actual Tab. Tab works for
> autocomplete in the shell (Bash). Any suggestions? I was surprised I
> didn't find any solutions via Google.
>
> Thanks,
> Yitzchas
For help about Vim, you should always search the Vim help first; it is
much more complete and more to-the-point than anything you could find on
Google.
In this case, the relevant sections are
:help 'wildchar'
and maybe also
:help 'compatible'
:help 'wildmode'
:help 'wildmenu'
The most common reason for the tab not working as an autocomplete key is
that you're in 'compatible' mode, which would e.g. be the case when
running without a vimrc (inless you have the -N switch on the Vim
command-line). I personally recommend the following as a basic vimrc,
which you'll "flesh up" as you go along:
----- start -----
set nocompatible
" uncomment the following snippet if you want to always have
" English menus. Unlike most user customizations, this one must go
" before sourcing the vimrc_example.vim.
" if has('multi_lang')
" if has('unix')
" language messages C
" else
" language messages en
" endif
" endif
runtime vimrc_example.vim " include many useful settings
" if desired, add additional user customizations below
----- end -----
Paste the above (without the "----- start -----" and "----- end -----"
lines of course) into a Vim session, save it by means of
:saveas ~/.vimrc
then restart Vim.
About ^I, Tab and Ctrl-I are synonymous to Vim (also Esc and Ctrl-[,
Return and Ctrl-M, etc.). On the command-line (at the bottom of the Vim
window), a tab is usually displayed as ^I (and in blue if you haven't
set a colorscheme).
Best regards,
Tony.
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