created by

Yuheng Xie

script type

utility

description

When editing the command-line (: / etc.), press Ctrl-P or Ctrl-N to complete the word before the cursor, using keywords in the current file. E.g: you want to search for "elephant" in the buffer, just type /ele and press Ctrl-P. So long as "elephant" is in the buffer, you will get "ele" completed into "elephant". This script is functional similar with (but far more better than) SearchComplete vimscript #474 (version 1.1).

install details

Just drop the script file "cmdline-complete.vim" into the plugin directory. Restart VIM. If you want to use other keys instead of default <c-p> <c-n>, you may say in your .vimrc cmap <c-y> <Plug>CmdlineCompleteBackward cmap <c-e> <Plug>CmdlineCompleteForward this will use Ctrl-Y for search backward and Ctrl-E for search forward. Note: I don't think it's good to use Tab and Shift-Tab for completion, since it will disable vim's original cmdline-completion. Without python, speed will be a bit slow with large file (e.g. > 100K). Compile your vim with python is recommended.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
cmdline-complete.vim	1.1.3	2008-07-18	7.0	Yuheng Xie	added support for 'iskeyword'
cmdline-complete.vim	1.1.2	2008-07-13	7.0	Yuheng Xie	added support for 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase'
cmdline-complete.vim	1.1.1	2008-07-09	7.0	Yuheng Xie	trival fix for 1.1
cmdline-complete.vim	1.0.4	2008-05-08	7.0	Yuheng Xie	fix for environment where python was found without module re

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