Monday, May 4, 2015

Can remote-send trigger Tab-completion?

I'm sending keys from a shell to a running Vim instance using the "--remote-send" option. I want to trigger Tab-completion on Vim's command line (e.g. `vim --remote-send ":ed<Tab>"` -> ":edit") but it ends up inserting a Tab character rather than completing the command (":ed^I" rather than ":edit"). Is there a way to do this?

The reason I'm doing this in the first place is I'm using Vimrunner (https://github.com/AndrewRadev/vimrunner) to write integration tests for a Vim plugin I'm building. I ran into this problem using Vimrunner's api to interact with Vim, and under the hood it's using Vim's client/server remote functionality. I tried it directly in the shell and got the same results.

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