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I would like to know how I could set up script names auto completion in vim ?
For example let's say I have myscript.sh in ~/bin and ~/bin is in my $PATH, I would like to type mys in vim and get auto completion.
I think it should be possible with CTRL-X CTRL-U or CTRL-X CTRL-O but not sure how.
Note: I've already an Omni completion set up by let &runtimepath pointing to a vim program directory.
Thanks for your help !
One way is to write a custom completer:
function ShellCmd(findstart, base) abort
if a:findstart
" ... some logic here to find the start of a word
" ... example near `:help E839`
else
return split($PATH, ':')
\ ->map({_,v -> glob(v.'/*', v:true, v:true, v:true)})
\ ->flatten()
\ ->map({_,v -> fnamemodify(v, ':t')})
\ ->filter({_,v -> v =~# a:base})
endif
endfunction
If you only want to match commands that start with a:base, you should change the last filter to v =~# '^'.a:base.
Assign this to completefunc and use <C-x><C-u>.
When writing a custom command, you can use -complete=shellcmd.
:help pattern for the first and :help command-complete for the second. For the first, the matching is currently unanchored, so completions for « vim » will return all shell executables in path that contain vim—even those that dont start with vim! This may or may not be want you want, so you can anchor the start of the match if you need to. The custom command piece isn’t really relevant to you, but when defining a command (:help :command) you can give it your own completion as well.
– D. Ben Knoble♦
Sep 24 at 14:04
:let &runtimepath.=','.$MYPROGRAM_VIMPATHand:set completeopt=longest,menuonein .vimrc to activate auto completion. I just wanted to notice this such that I do not break this auto completion. – jeremy Sep 24 at 12:58~/.vim/after/syntax/plumed.vimand then write an ftdetect to set the filetype (thereby setting the syntax) for the appropriate files. This is what most language plugins do, except they don't use after (and, however you install your plugins, they get automatically put on the runtimepath) – D. Ben Knoble♦ Sep 24 at 13:34