Excerpts from Александър Л. Димитров's message of Sat Dec 06 13:31:27 +0100 
2008:
> Hi fellas,
> 
> I really don't like the completion stuff in ex mode. Take :saveas as an 
> example:
> :saveas is recorded in the Vim manual as :sav[eas], which means that the 
> command
> should get accepted with any of :sav, :save, :savea, :saveas. Now, we're doing
> that, no questions asked. But we don't do :sav!, :save!, :savea!, :saveas!. At
> least not without recording a completion option *every* single one of those.
> There are other commands (:write), which are similar.
> 
> I think we should really do something to clean up this mess. Any ideas? If 
> not,
> I'll try to do something about it the next couple of days.

I agree that the completing code for the ex mode is too much verbose, that's
mainly due to our laziness. Feel free to improve it!

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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