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Is it possible to press tab or some other operator to view the available files in a given directory path? For example:
For example, in the unix shell I can do something like [tab] to get:
After trial-and-erring a bit, it seems like :e is the command I want to use instead of :o ? Is :e basically like "open with tab-complete" ?
Open mode (from the :open command) is a bit of a legacy command:
*:o* *:op* *:open*
:[range]o[pen] Works like |:visual|: end Ex mode.
{Vi: start editing in open mode}
:[range]o[pen] /pattern/ As above, additionally move the cursor to the
column where "pattern" matches in the cursor
line.
Vim does not support open mode, since it's not really useful. For those
situations where ":open" would start open mode Vim will leave Ex mode, which
allows executing the same commands, but updates the whole screen instead of
only one line.
You want to use :edit instead to, well, edit a file. By default, you should be able to use :help cmdline-completion, including tab, to complete filenames. This works for :split, :vsplit , and :tabedit, too, as these are the standard "edit a file" commands.
:tag-related commands and :find- or 'path'-related commands make my file-navigation much faster; rather than tab-completing to find what I want, I just jump directly to it
:h 'wildmenu'<c-d>. Indeed, it does not work with:o, you'll need:e.