On Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:47:29 PM UTC+4, Matteo Landi wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I would like to remap the <Tab> key so that vim will automatically pick the 
> current selected item from the completion popup.  I thought it would have 
> been easy but was wrong;  here is what I added to my .vimrc file:
> 
>   inoremap <expr> <Tab> pumvisible() ? "\<C-Y>" : "\<Tab>"
> 
> Vim still keeps adding tabs rather than closing the completion popup.  Is it 
> something wrong with that?  Maybe other plugins interfering?  I even found at 
> least two different resources where something like this is done, but none of 
> them worked.

Works for me. Can you show what exactly did you type, what you expected to see 
as a result and what you saw.

Note that `"\<C-y>"` here actually produces string `"\"\\\<C-y>\""` instead of 
`"\"\\<C-y>\""`. I.e. <C-y> gets replaced with control character *before* 
string evaluation happens meaning that backslashes are useless here. Since 
backslash-escaped control character inside double quotes is just control 
character this does not do any harm *except* for misguiding reader about <C-y> 
handling in this case: it is handled when doing :map argument expansion and not 
expression evaluation.

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