Re: Trying to escape tab in exe

On Saturday, June 04, 2011 19:00:39 Tony Mechelynck wrote:

> On 05/06/11 00:30, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > If I type in the following ex command:
> > :e /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/
> >
> > and then press TAB, I get a wildmenu for the target
> > directory. Yay!
> > But I can't get this same function to work programmatically.
> > I have the following two functions:
> > "
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > --------- function! EdDir(dir)
> >
> > execute 'e ' . a:dir . '/\<Tab>'
> >
> > endfunction
> > "
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > --------- function! EdControllers()
> >
> > execute 'call EdDir("' . g:ControllerFolder . '")'
> >
> > endfunction
> > "
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > --------- " where g:ControllerFolder is
> > '/home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers' If I
> > execute
> >
> > : call EdControllers()<cr>
> >
> > vim opens a new file
> > /home/tim/prj/cgi/baker/xmlimport/controllers/<Tab>
> > grrr!
> > So how do I escape the Tab?
> > I've tried
> >
> > :h execute, and don't find any help there.
> >
> > thanks
> > using vim 7.2 Huge version with GTK2-GNOME GUI

> IIRC, the relevant setting is 'wildcharm' (q.v.).

another way to approach it would be to call glob() with an
asterisk in place of the <Tab>

sc

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