Re: shortcuts for long filenames

On Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:06:50 AM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:
>
> A couple ideas in addition to Jürgen's good suggestions:
>
> - you can use tab-completion, so you could type
>
> :e /v<tab>/www/h<tab>/si<tab>/all/m<tab>/jq<tab>
>
> or something like that
>

To expand on this: recursive directory search in tab completion!

:e /var/**/modules/jq<tab>

Or, add a path to Vim, and use ":find" (which also has tab completion):

:set path+=/var/www/html/sites/all/modules
:find jq<tab>

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