In a Jekyll file I have
<IMG SRC="/assets/images/
I would like to use the filename autocompletion shortcut to insert the rest of the filename, but this fails because of the leading slash.
When I remove the leading slash, the completion works perfectly but I then I have to put it back in for the code to work.
How can I tell vim to ignore the slash?
Related question is this one but the solutions do not appear relevant.
I work around it by first typing the path without the leading slash '/', so that vim will complete it, and then afterwards prepend the slash using one of the following maps
nnoremap [MAPKEYS] m'F"a/<Esc>`'l
imap [MAPKEYS] <Esc>[MAPKEYS]a
The cursors position is also restored. Note that the maps rely on the path being surrounded by quotes ("the/path").
PS: remember to use <buffer> if you put this in an ft file (e.g. .vim/after/ftplugin/{markdown,liquid}.vim or in autocommands. A more robust version of the above is given here (put in .vimrc and reload):
augroup slash_bindings
autocmd! slash_bindings
autocmd Filetype markdown,liquid,yaml nnoremap <buffer> <MAPKEY> m':call search("['\"]", "b")<CR>a/<Esc>`'l
autocmd Filetype markdown,liquid,yaml imap <buffer> <MAPKEY> <Esc><MAPKEY>a
augroup end
{% link file %}, which works with relative paths!)<C-x><C-f>logic to implement your own, or usingcompletefunc. See How to create my own autocomplete function? The help page says "Note: the 'path' option is not used here (yet)", so the "real solution" would probably be to implement that in Vim.