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Re: vim like completion in bash?



Steve Lamb(grey@dmiyu.org) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > zhengquan zhang(zhang.zhengquan.mailinglist@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
He also wrote

>But I want the effect that: I type vi *a under the command line and
>press tab
>it will automatically expand to vi aaa. I am using bash.

Which is what I answered to, admittedly to his 1st message instead of
the second, in which he stated the above.
> 
> >> zhang
> 
> > I am running testing with vim 7.0-122+1. 
> 
> > ls WiFi
> > ./  ../  Dlink_DWL-G520  Linksys_wireless  Lucent-WavLan-Gold
> > MAC_addr  Netgear_WPN311
> 
> > vim WiFi/WA<tab>
> > yields
> > vim WiFi/MAC_addr
> 
>     But that's not what he's asking for.  He's asking for *foo*, note the
> double stars.  So a better example would be:
> 
> vim WiFi/*Wav* <Tab>
> 
>     turning into...
> 
> vim WiFi/Lucent-WavLan-Gold
 
Not here it didn't.

vim WiFi/*Wav* <Tab>
Display all 171 possibilities? (y or n)

Wayne



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