命令模式下的vim路径补全

Question

In vim, If you hit :e <tab><tab> , vim complete some path.

However, I want to open a/b/c/d.cpp , I stroke :e <tab><tab> and find AA .

I want to find subdirectory of AA . Alternatively, I hit / key.

example :e AA//BB//CC//DD.cpp

Are there another good way? In summary, I want to know complete path for subdirectory in command :e .

Answer 1

Command-line completion lets you use wildcards.

The basic * means "any character":

:e *<Tab>          " similar to plain <Tab>
:e foo*<Tab>       " completes only files starting with 'foo'

The fancier ** means "any subdirectory":

:e **/<Tab>        " completes every file under every subdirectory
                   " of the current working directory
:e **/*foo<Tab>    " completes every file ending with 'foo' under every subdirectory
                   " of the current working directory

See :help file-searching .

By the way, it's "command-line mode". "Command mode" is just another name for "normal mode".

Answer 2

This answer is based on the assumption you want the path for picking out the correct file for editing.

May I suggest to use :find after setting the path properly. This will save extra lot of typing.

You can start by setting :set path+=** (this will search sub-dirs as well). Now you can simply do

:find d.cpp

vim will do the rest for you. It will find out the path to d.cpp and open it. What is nice about it is it allows to use wildcard, for example, as :find d.* or :find *.cpp .

If you don't want to use find and continue with edit , May be it will be useful to :set wildmenu . This will show all available options that you can iterate with tab