At Thu, 24 May 2001 16:39:03 +0900 Wai-Sun Chia wrote:

>> For example, Vim/emacs has completion capabilities which
>> allow you to type partial word, the press a key and get the rest of
>> the word automatically.
>> This works especially well for long names.
>> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but how do you do that in vim?

Using CTRL-P and the friends. See :help ins-completion.

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