Re: Capture output of command line completion in script

Christian Brabandt wrote:

> On Mi, 26 Dez 2012, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> >
> > Christian Brabandt wrote:
> >
> > > On Di, 25 Dez 2012, Luca Pette wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Saturday, 26 March 2011 00:10:52 UTC+1, Rickard Lindberg wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > If I type CTRL-D on the command line it will show a list of possible
> > > > >
> > > > > matches (:e foo<CTRL-D>).
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Is it possible to capture this result list in a vim script?
> > > >
> > > > I was searching for this too. Any new suggestion? It would be
> > > > awesome if it would be possible to capture the output of command
> > > > line completion with vimscript/
> > >
> > > Bram,
> > > here is a patch, that enables redirecting when using <ctrl-d> for
> > > commandline completion:
> >
> > Hmm, I wonder why this request was made. Wouldn't it be more useful to
> > add a Vim script function to access the completions?
>
> Right. But shouldn't :redir also be useable to capture all available
> completions? We can still think about adding another completion
> vimscript function for returning all matches.

That depends. If someone uses :redir to capture the result of a
command, then the list of completions just gets in the way. Generally,
redirection is to capture the output of the command, not what was done
to edit it. We could perhaps add a flag to :redir to also capture
everything that was typed and displayed, but that's getting complicated.
With a Vim funtion it should be a lot easier and straightforward to get
what you want.

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