Man page - vis-complete(1)

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Manual

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VIS-COMPLETE (1) General Commands Manual VIS-COMPLETE (1)

NAME

vis-complete — Interactively complete file or word

SYNOPSIS

vis-complete [ --file | --word ] [ -- ] pattern

vis-complete -h | --help

DESCRIPTION

vis-complete takes a pattern on the command-line and completes file or word and displays them in a menu for the user to select one. Once the user has selected a completion, the completion (excluding the pattern) is printed to standard output.

vis-complete uses vis-menu (1) as its user-interface, so see that page for more details.

--file

This passes pattern to find to obtain a list of matching file names (this is the default).

--word

This reads standard input to obtain a list of lines matching pattern .

--

An argument following this token will be treated as pattern, even if it would otherwise be a valid command-line option.

If encountered after a previous instance of -- it is treated as a pattern.

pattern

The pattern to be completed by file or word.

-h | --help

If present, vis-complete prints a usage summary and exits, ignoring any other flag and arguments.

EXIT STATUS

The vis-complete utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

In particular, like vis-menu (1), vis-complete prints nothing and sets its exit status to 1 if the user refused to select a file.

SEE ALSO

vis (1), vis-menu (1)

BUGS

Because vis-complete uses find (1) to obtain the list of files, weird things might happen if you have control-characters in your filenames. Vis 0.9 March 21, 2023 VIS-COMPLETE (1)

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