[vox] Re: vim word completion

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:12:00AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sat 22 Jul 06,  9:35 PM, Norm Matloff <matloff at cs.ucdavis.edu> said:
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 09:47:41PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> >  
> > > has anyone else noticed the new vim enhancement when you do ctrl-p or ctrl-n
> > > word completion?  wow!!!!
> > 
> > This is been in vim for a long time, five or six years or more.  I agree
> > this is really nice; I use it constantly.
> > 
> > For those who use other vi clones, I have macros to do the same thing
> > at http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/UnixAndC/Editors/ViIntro.html
> > 
> > Norm
> 
> Norm -- I don't think you've seen what I'm talking about because I'm pretty
> sure this is really very new.
> 
> When you use control-p and control-n for word completion, you now get a
> pop-up menu showing the different choices for completion.  It's an ncurses
> based menu widget.

Heh, well, not when /I/ use it... because I tend to use gvim ;-)

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Micah J. Cowan
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