Re: Commandmode autocomplete

On 11/10/12 23:23, bilibop project wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> --------message d'origine --------
> De: "Christian Brabandt" <cblists@256bit.org>
> Sujet: Re: Commandmode autocomplete
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:46:40 +0200
>
> It seems we are agree about the <Right> behaviour when 'wildmenu' is on.
>
>>> Can you quote me this part of the documentation ? I don't remember have
>>> read somewhere that the Right-arrow is disabled when default settings are
>>> applied, but just that 'wildmenu' gives it a specific behaviour.
>>
>> ,----[ :h 'wildmenu' ]-
>> | <Left> <Right> - select previous/next match (like CTRL-P/CTRL-N)
>> `----
>
> Yes, I know.
>
>> ,----[ :h c_<Right> ]-
>> | *c_<Right>* *c_Right*
>> | <Right> cursor right
>> `----
>
> Yes, I know. But what can happen when the cursor is already at the end
> of the line ? On your systems, nothing; but on mine, <Right> works like
> <Down>... my apologies, but I'm not responsible of this fact, even if it
> not documented. I just say it exists on my Debian system with Vim version
> 7.3.547-4.

AFAIK, with 'wildmenu' on, when the cursor is already at the end of the
statusline you get one further screenwidth of menuitems if there are
any; and when it is on the last menuitem, <Right> brings you to what you
typed with no completion, and <Right> again wraps around to the first
menuitem. Except that if there is only a single matching completion,
<Tab> adds it on the commandline and no menu appears.

Debian is infamous for bringing so-called "improvements" to software,
even sometimes breaking the functionality desired by the software's
author, and without making it obvious what changes they brought. (Part,
but not all, of the Firefox-Thunderbird-SeaMonkey vs.
Iceweasel-Icedove-Iceape contestation was about this behaviour.) I
wonder what you would see with a Vim built from Bram's authentic
sources. See the following HowTo pages:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm

Also, even if Debian didn't break Vim this time, the current patchlevel
is 7.3.687; patch 547 was published a little more than 4 months ago.
Maybe the bug was fixed in the meantime? See
http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README for a one-line summary of
every official patch to Vim 7.3.

>
>>> Have you even tried to verify your assertions without loading your
>>> system/user vimrc ?
>>
>> Of course I have on Windows as on Linux.
>
> OK. In that case the solution about the different behaviours of the <Right>
> key should come from out of the box. Maybe readline settings or terminfo
> or something else... (I have made some tests with different settings in my
> .inputrc, with 'convert-meta' on/off and some others, but nothing: in my
> case <Right> is useful in commandmode completion, that's all; I will surely
> not complain about that).
>
> Cheers,
> quidame
>


Best regards,
Tony.
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