On 2015-03-31, Peng Yu wrote:
> 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?
Isn't that what Tim already explained above with
:help list<C-D>
? Take a look at
:help 'wildmode'
for ways to customize the results. You might try
:set wildmode=longest,list
which is what I use.
Regards,
Gary
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