On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 9:43:26 PM UTC+8, Ivan wrote:
> I'm sending keys from a shell to a running Vim instance using the
> "--remote-send" option. I want to trigger Tab-completion on Vim's command
> line (e.g. `vim --remote-send ":ed<Tab>"` -> ":edit") but it ends up
> inserting a Tab character rather than completing the command (":ed^I" rather
> than ":edit"). Is there a way to do this?
>
> The reason I'm doing this in the first place is I'm using Vimrunner
> (https://github.com/AndrewRadev/vimrunner) to write integration tests for a
> Vim plugin I'm building. I ran into this problem using Vimrunner's api to
> interact with Vim, and under the hood it's using Vim's client/server remote
> functionality. I tried it directly in the shell and got the same results.
maybe you can use the remote-eval feature together with the "feedkeys()"
function to replace remote-send, because AFAIK this function "feedkeys()"
completely simulate user key strokes without any subtle background tricks.
regards ~
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