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created 2002 · complexity basic · version 5.7


In shell scripts, you often define environment variables for different directory names, for example:

JAVA_HOME=/opt/java/jdk1.4
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin....

Normally typing Ctrl-X Ctrl-F is used to complete FileName under cursor. But this does not work if used on lines given above.

This is because Vim treats "=" sign as a valid filename character.

Since the actual possibility of "=" being in any filename is very less, this char can be removed from the list of valid filename char.

set isfname-==

Putting the above line in vimrc will remove "=" from the list of valid filename chars.

Thus you can easyly complete filenames using <Ctrl-X> <Ctrl-F>

Comments[]

For source code editors of Progress, based on this tip, I used

set isfname-={,}

and now my include files are pulled in automatically with gf when they are in the format {myinclude.i}


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