Keys that show the previous/next match, such as orĬTRL-P/CTRL-N, cause the highlight to move to the appropriate match. The possible matches are shown just above the command line, with theįirst match highlighted (overwriting the status line, if there is On pressing 'wildchar' (usually ) to invoke completion, See the doc :h 'wildmenu': When 'wildmenu' is on, command-line completion operates in an enhanced The first step is to create your vimrc file if it doesn't exists yet and to add the following line: set wildmenu Your main problem in my opinion is to learn the basics of the editor and then learn more and more commands.Īnyway Vim has a built-in auto completion feature for the command line it is controlled with the wildmenu and wildmode options. I really don't think that having autocompletion or not will help you learning how to use Vim.
