in these newfangled versions of vim, when I :e a new file and try to autocomplete, instead of simply completing up to the next ambiguity, it will try and "guess" which file I want and autocomplete that, and then hitting tab further will cycle through the rest of the files. I hate this. A lot. How do I switch it back to the old way?
It's really a pain when I have, say, thirty files in a directory, all of which start with "somereallylongname-", half of them follow that with "middlepart-" and then each end with a long, unique name. With autocomplete the old way, I can "so<TAB>mid<TAB>longunique<TAB>" and voila. The "new style", if I "so<TAB>" it starts cycling through files and it may take me fifteen tabs to find the right one. Or I could hit "so<TAB>", backspace the part that isn't apropos, type in the actual part, tab again, rinse and repeat. Please, just somebody give me back my old autocomplete! Also, I like having the files in the directory pop up when I hit <tab> twice. It's nice if you're very forgetful like I am. Thanks in advance, Ross, still coping with the "everything's changed in the past two years! well, except for everything's still the same..." syndrome. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
