Re: wildmenu: take marked item without executing the command

On Monday, August 6, 2012 6:26:48 AM UTC-5, Johannes Deutsch wrote:
> Hi all,
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> since recently i use the wildmenu for completion in command-mode. And
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> i'm quite happy with it. Unfortunately i can't select an item, so that
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> the wildmenu closes and i can start a new completion upon the previous
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> one in succession.
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> For example i want to open a file in '~/.vim/' . So far, i
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> usually proceed in the following way (with # enclosed items are
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> selected).
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> :e .vi<tab>
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> #.vim/# .vimrc
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> :e .vim<c-n>
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> #.vim/# .vimrc
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> :e .vim/
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> At this point i want wildmenu to close and proceed with
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> pressing the tabulator key to make a further completion. By intuition i
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> press <cr> to achieve this, but this executes the command.
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> I feel certain that a key exists which close the wildmenu without
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> discarding the selection. Unfortunately no such key is mentioned in
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> :h 'wildmenu' . An awkward workaround for me is pressing
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> <space><bs><tab> for the next completion.
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> Maybe some of you experts can point me in the right direction!?
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> With best regards
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> Johannes

Under :help 'wildmenu' it documents <Up> and <Down> as moving into parent/subdirectories during filename completion. For some reason there is no mention of this under :help cmdline-completion or :help <Up> or :help <Down>.

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