[edgy] command tab-completion broken in vim

[Marius Gedminas]

If you want to, say, filter a number of lines through an external command, you do :!command-name. If command-name is something like ~/bin/myscript.py, I cannot use <tab> to complete the script name.

This is a regression from vim 6.4 in dapper. It is also fixed upstream in patch 7.0.081 (edgy has 7.0.035; upstream is now up to 7.0.110).

[Andrew Moll (andrew-mac-boy)]

confirmed here; same for any shell-like filename tab-completion (:r ~/path etc.)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

No. This bug only manifests when completing shell commands. Regular file completion works fine, if you have the 'compatible' option disabled. Tab completion after :! only completes binaries found in $PATH, and upstream patch 7.0.081 fixes it to complete both binaries from $PATH and files on the filesystem.

Andrew: try :set nocp, and then try tab-completion. It works fine here, with edgy's vim.

[Constantine Evans (cevans)]

Thank you for reporting this. The problem has already been fixed in Feisty because it has a newer patch (7.0.122), which fixes the problem, as you mentioned.

It is unlikely that this will be fixed in Edgy Backports unless there is some other reason for a newer version of Vim to be backported.