Yakov Lerner wrote:
> Would you add to the todo list some way to lock the
> filename completion to the end of the filename ? Currently, the
> :e *a<Tab>
> automatically adds the * at the end. This shows not
> files endnig with 'a', but all files *containing* 'a' . This
> is by design. The consequence is that user cannot make the
> completion show files the ending with 'a', no ?
>
> Maybe some character can be defined that anchors the to the
> end of name and tells the completion mechanism not to add
> the trailing * ? For example,
> :e *a$<Tab>
> ?
>
> This affects usefulness of filename completion when
> directory contains very large number of files.
You can at least match with the end of a word:
:e *a\><Tab>
Somehow using a dollar doesn't work here, probably because of expanding
environment vars. We might not be able to change this without breaking
backwards compatiblity.
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