When writing shell scripts, it is frequently necessary to call external commands in $PATH
. Some of these have long names (e.g. system-config-printer-applet
or xfwm4-workspace-settings
), and it would be useful to be able to complete them while in insert mode. Shells like bash
and zsh
have this capability built in.
However, this isn't built into any of Vim's ins-completion
defaults.
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#ins-completion
The feature was requested in 2004, but does not seem to have been implemented since then.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim/26022
Is there a setting or plugin to enable this?