Re: Trying to escape tab in exe

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.).

HTH,
Tony.
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