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[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Vinson Carrethers wrote:
>
>> and use the arrow keys to arrive at a directory/file and <CR> gives action.
>> Am I communicating my results incorrectly?
>
> Not on my system. Immediately after it displays the file names it drops
> back to  "[holtzm at localhost]~$ sudo vim Procmail/" and the arrow keys just
> cycle thru the .bash_history file.

If you open a directory in vim, it will display a list of files in
that directory that you can choose from.  e.g. sudo vim
Procmail<enter> then arrow keys

Brian

PS  probably requires vim-full or similar rather than the abortionized
vim-tiny some emacs user decided was a good default :-)