On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-03-29 20:22, Peng Yu wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
>> >   :help list<C-D>
>>
>> Is there a way to somehow print the potential matches in the
>> command to stdout.
>>
>> I am able to get vim print some arbitrary text. But I can not get
>> the above printed to the command line.
>>
>> vim -T dumb -c echo\ \"Hello\ World\!\" -c q
>
> Not that I know of.  If I aspired to do something like that, I'd start
> by using :helpgrep to find the matches of interest:
>
>   :helpgrep \*[#-)!+-~]\+list[#-)!+-~]\+\*
>
> and then access the quick-fix window with ":copen", extracting the
> matching contents.

In bash, there is `compgen`. So, it might make sense to add something
similar to vim as well?

-- 
Regards,
Peng

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