On Monday, August 6, 2012 6:26:48 AM UTC-5, Johannes Deutsch wrote: > Hi all, > > > > since recently i use the wildmenu for completion in command-mode. And > > i'm quite happy with it. Unfortunately i can't select an item, so that > > the wildmenu closes and i can start a new completion upon the previous > > one in succession. > > > > For example i want to open a file in '~/.vim/' . So far, i > > usually proceed in the following way (with # enclosed items are > > selected). > > > > :e .vi<tab> > > > > #.vim/# .vimrc > > :e .vim<c-n> > > > > #.vim/# .vimrc > > :e .vim/ > > > > At this point i want wildmenu to close and proceed with > > pressing the tabulator key to make a further completion. By intuition i > > press <cr> to achieve this, but this executes the command. > > > > I feel certain that a key exists which close the wildmenu without > > discarding the selection. Unfortunately no such key is mentioned in > > :h 'wildmenu' . An awkward workaround for me is pressing > > <space><bs><tab> for the next completion. > > > > > > Maybe some of you experts can point me in the right direction!? > > > > With best regards > > > > Johannes
Under :help 'wildmenu' it documents <Up> and <Down> as moving into parent/subdirectories during filename completion. For some reason there is no mention of this under :help cmdline-completion or :help <Up> or :help <Down>. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
