Re: tab completion of file names with partial string matching

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 11:43:59 PM UTC-6, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Say I have a directory with two files junk1.txt, junk2.txt. In zsh, if I do
>
> vim 1<tab>
>
> it expands to
>
> vim junk1.txt
>
> Is it possible to have this kind of completion when opening files in
> gvim as well? For example, commands such as
> :e 1<tab>
> :find 1<tab>
> :tabf 1<tab>
>
> should expand to
> :e junk1.txt
> :find junk1.txt
> :tabf junk1.txt
>
> respectively. If it matters, I am using vim 7.4.576 on a machine
> running Debian Jessie. Any ideas?

I'm not sure exactly how zsh is doing its matching, but you could probably use wildcards to achieve something similar, with e.g. :e *1*<Tab> instead of just :e 1<Tab>.

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