how to get shell completion in cmdline?

[Kamilcuk]

Hi,

I have two directories - /tmp/aaaab/ and /tmp/aaaaa/ . I type :e /tmp/aaa.

Then I type TAB and this confusing thing happens:

How can I configure cmdline completion:

• so that only exact completion are taken into account?
• the completion is not inserted if it not exact single match?
• achieve more shell like behavior?

My research: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1hnc2aw/how_to_configure_blinkcmp_not_to_show/ , https://cmp.saghen.dev/recipes#disable-completion-in-only-shell-command-mode , #1043 , https://github.com/Saghen/blink.cmp/blob/main/doc/configuration/reference.md#mode-specific .

I tried:

  { "blink.cmp", opts = { sources = { providers = { cmdline = { enabled = false } } } } },

  {
    "blink.cmp",
    opts = {
      cmdline = {
        completion = {
          list = { selection = { preselect = false, auto_insert = false } },
        },
      },
    },
  },

Thanks

[saghen]

Sounds like you're looking for the configuration at the top of this page: https://cmp.saghen.dev/modes/cmdline.html

[Kamilcuk]

Hi, thank you, that's great, but then it works like in vim I believe. I would want shell-like completion in vim. I would expect, when I type .gitl<tab> and there is no .gitlab-ci.yml file, nothing should happen. Instead .gitignore is completed, which doesn't even match .gitl prefix that I typed. Thank you.

[saghen]

That's due to typo resistance which you can disable, see these docs. And prefix matching isn't supported at the moment #1258