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Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Sat Sep 13 22:50:08 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:

>     Sorry to be bearer of bad news but I did the gedit again to be sure 
> and 3 Tabs do it just like the older vim.

Just to be clear.  The <tab> filename completion is a feature of the
shell.  The directory listing Vinson showed is a feature of vim.

When you have typed:

vim /etc/X11<tab>

vim is not even running.  It is only when you type <ENTER> that the vim
process executes.
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