Re: path autoexpansion (autcompletion) when saving files or changing directories

Hi Victoria,

What you want to have a look at is:

:h cmdline-completion

I use:

set wildmode=list

in $MYVIMRC and that seems to do the same job as my shell. i.e I hit tab to
complete.

HTH.


Regards,



On 4 February 2017 at 00:25, Victoria Stuart
<victoria.a.stuart@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello: please forgive me if this is a FAQ; I searched (a lot: Google ...) but Icould not find a solution. I am using neovim 0.1.7 (recent switch from Vim 8.0).
>
> Say I want to save a file (:sav) in a different path on my system (Arch Linux); e.g., I am in ~/projects/... , and I want to save it to ~/temp/... or even another mountpoint, such as /mnt/another_drive/...
>
> I find myself having to know/manually type the complete path; I don't have auto-completion, as in a bash terminal.
>
> Likewise, if in Vim (nvim) I want to :cd, again I have to manuallt type the path (no autocompletion).
>
> FYI, I have the NerdTREE and SuperTab plugins installed, if that helps. Thanks, appreciated!
>
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