On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Check compgen in bash, then you will see what I mean. > :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 > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_use/sQk2EPvlEVY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Regards, Peng -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
