Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christian wrote: > On So, 13 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > I mentioned in another thread: I split this into two entries, one for > > CTRL-P and one for . They are actually more different, using one > > entry is confusing. > > I still think it is useful to mention, that this undoes the com

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-13 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On So, 13 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > I mentioned in another thread: I split this into two entries, one for > CTRL-P and one for . They are actually more different, using one > entry is confusing. I still think it is useful to mention, that this undoes the completion, as this is not entir

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-13 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christian wrote: > > I actually checked :h cmdline-complete (which contains this paragraph) > > and I did not understand this. I know Ctrl-P gets the previous command > > from the commandline but it wasn't entirely obvious to me, that you can > > use it to undo the completion. So how about thi

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-13 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Bram, > I actually checked :h cmdline-complete (which contains this paragraph) > and I did not understand this. I know Ctrl-P gets the previous command > from the commandline but it wasn't entirely obvious to me, that you can > use it to undo the completion. So how about this paragraph: > > >

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-11 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On Do, 10 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Christian wrote: > > > On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > You can use Shift-Tab to go back to the uncompleted text (well, if > > > shift-Tab works on the terminal). > > > > Is that documented somewhere? > > :he c_ > > CTRL-P als

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-10 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christian wrote: > On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > You can use Shift-Tab to go back to the uncompleted text (well, if > > shift-Tab works on the terminal). > > Is that documented somewhere? :he c_ CTRL-P also works. I actually need to use that sometimes over ssh. -- Proofre

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: [...] > What do others think? I use ":set wildmenu wildmode=longest:full,full" (provided of course that those settings are supported in the current Vim) and that suits me (then I navigate the "wild menu" by means of arrow keys); but as I said

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > You can use Shift-Tab to go back to the uncompleted text (well, if > shift-Tab works on the terminal). Is that documented somewhere? BEst, Christian -- Lieber einen von innen verstellbaren Außenspiegel, als einen von außen verstellbaren Innenspiegel.

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie David Fishburn
> What do others think? I haven't tried the options to figure out what they do, so I will simply describe what I like. In bash it drives me insane when I hit Tab and it only stops at the match and makes me type another character just to further complete. I want: 1. Tab to show the full file na

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christian wrote: > can we please change the default for wildmode from "full" to > "list:longest,longest:full"? > > Rationale: I have been working lately on a system with many files laying > around with complex names across a complex directory structure.

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Dominique wrote: > Cesar Romani wrote: > > > On 09/05/2018 05:44 a.m., Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > > > On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > > > >> With my longest:full,full setting I don't have to delete anything, I > > >> just repeatedly hit the right-arrow key (or

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Dominique Pellé
Cesar Romani wrote: > On 09/05/2018 05:44 a.m., Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > > >> With my longest:full,full setting I don't have to delete anything, I > >> just repeatedly hit the right-arrow key (or down-arrow to descend into > >> d

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Cesar Romani
On 09/05/2018 05:44 a.m., Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >> With my longest:full,full setting I don't have to delete anything, I >> just repeatedly hit the right-arrow key (or down-arrow to descend into >> directories); if there are too many matches I ca

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > With my longest:full,full setting I don't have to delete anything, I > just repeatedly hit the right-arrow key (or down-arrow to descend into > directories); if there are too many matches I can get an overview by > hitting Ctrl-D instead of , then type

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
With my longest:full,full setting I don't have to delete anything, I just repeatedly hit the right-arrow key (or down-arrow to descend into directories); if there are too many matches I can get an overview by hitting Ctrl-D instead of , then type something more specific once I know what the choices

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
On Mi, 09 Mai 2018, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > So what's the problem? It is confusing and the chance that the first full match is actually the one wanted by the user is lesser, the more matches there are. This is a random example from my current system. It might differ if you have those files

Re: Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Tony Mechelynck
endif " ! !has('gui_running') endif " 'wildmenu' So what's the problem? Best regards, Tony. On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Bram, > can we please change the default for wildmode from "full" to > "list:long

Please change the default for 'wildmode'

2018-05-09 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Bram, can we please change the default for wildmode from "full" to "list:longest,longest:full"? Rationale: I have been working lately on a system with many files laying around with complex names across a complex directory structure. On that system I did not have my curren