Re: Automatically prefixing argument to :find with *

Le vendredi 10 mars 2017 06:15:31 UTC+1, Suresh Govindachar a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Most of my uses of :find family of commands involves starting the
> argument with * and hitting tab to get completion.
>
> Would like to avoid the need to explicitly type the prefix *.
>
> The following shows a "chicken and egg" issue: for :Pf to be completed
> one needs the prefix *, but one is introducing :Pf just to avoid having
> to type the prefix *.
>
> command! -complete=file_in_path -nargs=* Pf :find *<args>
>
> I am able to write a custom completion function, but was wondering if
> there was a simpler solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Suresh

I use :find a lot, too, but with a simple normal mode mapping:

nnoremap ,f :find *

I also have an uppercase variant that narrows the search to the directory of the file associated with the current buffer:

nnoremap ,F :find <C-R>=fnameescape(expand('%:p:h')).'/**/*'<CR>

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