Vim: tab completion on vim command line should work

[lzybkr]

What did you do?

ESC : e c:

What did you expect to happen?

tab completion of files in c:\

What happened instead?

nothing

Technical details:

• VSCode Version: 1.5.1
• VsCodeVim Version: 0.1.10
• OS: Win10 Anniversary Edition

[johnfn]

Great suggestion, @lzybkr!

@rebornix any idea if this is even possible? Can we manipulate the text in the popup?

If not, is there another type of display that we _could_ manipulate? We could do the thing I do with search, but that is somewhat subpar.

[rebornix]

@johnfn I'm implementing :reg {arg} command and has similar feature request and I'm still playing with that part. If there is not such API, then it's a real valid feature request for VS Code. Will drop more info later.

[rebornix]

Related to https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/426

[xconverge]

This should be doable now that we moved the commandline to the status bar

[lipp]

Any news on this? IMHO - as a vim user - navigating files with :e + autocomplete / tab and switch with :b + autocomplete / tab is super important. Would be very cool and I'd love to switch to vscode :)

[dgaleazzo]

@lipp this is the only reason I'm still using vim instead to use vscode.

[japhillips87]

this will probably be a deal breaker for me too.

[keith-ferney]

I have started on a fix for this, it is not complete yet but here is the repo link
https://github.com/keith-ferney/Vim

[osdf]

Hallo,
on a Mac, typing ':e \~/' and then hitting tab does not work for folders -- these are not completed. Tab completion seems to work for files. Typing in a folder name, e.g. '\~/tmp/', tab completion works for the files in this folder. This is also true for e.g. ':b'. Is there a solution/workaround here?

[marcushwz]

Hello,
I am using VSCodeVim on a ubuntu machine. I have one issue when i tried to use the tab completion for files in the working folder. It seems that the "/" is not added after my current directory when I try to search for files in a folder. For example, I am currently in "workspace/jobs-listing", then when I tried to search for files in my templates folder, I do ":e templates/" in vim command line. Unfortunately, I received the error as shown in the picture.

I think this is fixable but I do not know how. Hope to hear from you guys here. Thanks and have a great day!