[SOLVED] vim tab completion

mikudo · 09-12-2018, 02:15 AM

Why does vim not tab complete at the command line?

I make a script and

#vim scri

no tab completion.

cat script tab completes.

Whats up with this?

In debian.

pan64 · 09-12-2018, 02:45 AM

tab completion is made by the shell, not by vim or cat. we need to know more about that environment to be able to understand that situation.
Can you please give us more details. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#beprecise

mikudo · 09-12-2018, 06:06 AM

Fair question, in this case I dont even know what to look for.

I know there are paths and environment variables. I'm running as root, this is a bash shell that is as far as I know normal.

It is not an urgent question, I do notice that directories autocomplete but not files. Another debian server I work on autocompletes fine.

Any further understanding of the autocomplete mechanic would be helpful, links etc. I found it difficult to search on this because most of the articles were related to tabs inside of vim etc.

lougavulin · 09-12-2018, 08:35 AM

For vim completion, everything should be in ~/.vimrc.
So if on one server for one user that works, and that doesn't on another, look at the differences between the ~/.vimrc file from each server - user.

mikudo · 09-12-2018, 08:47 AM

I dont have a .vimrc, I have /etc/vim/vimrc and it doesnt mention autocomplete, grep of 'complete' in the file does nothing.