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:set completeopt=menuone does not always show the menu. For example pressing :vs<tab> on the command line one would expect the menu to appear, with the singular option vsplit. What happens instead is vsplit is imediately completed. How can I prevent this, and instead always show the menu even with only one valid completion?

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    Welcome to Vi and Vim! We need more context, where are you using vs<tab>, on a script you're editing of type Vim? If so, are you using some plug-ins to enable and implement type completion? Or is it on the Vim command-line, like :vs<tab> to complete the Ex command you're typing, to have Vim execute it? Please edit the question to clarify the context where this completion is executed.
    – filbranden
    Sep 10, 2020 at 0:39
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    My bad! I've updated the question to reflect that this is a problem on the command line. Sep 10, 2020 at 2:02

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The 'completeopt' option only applies to Insert mode completion, which is not really the case when you're completing an Ex command on the Vim command-line.

The completion menu on the Vim command-line is enabled by 'wildmenu' and controlled with the 'wildmode' option.

But the 'wildmode' option doesn't support any setting that will display the completion menu when there's a single candidate for completion. From :help 'wildmode':

When there is only a single match, it is fully completed in all cases.

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