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authorBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2020-06-07 18:45:14 +0200
committerBram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>2020-06-07 18:45:14 +0200
commit1f1fd44ef796dd909ff5f3e5288b3fd79294dc71 (patch)
tree86edf1758d9821ab3ccd5793e646366d76046d3a /runtime
parentbb861e293e0170455184079fa537278754b07911 (diff)
patch 8.2.0925: getcompletion() does not return command line argumentsv8.2.0925
Problem: Getcompletion() does not return command line arguments. Solution: Add the "cmdline" option. (Shougo, closes #1140)
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
-rw-r--r--runtime/doc/eval.txt12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
index 52994f1179..94fc497886 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt
@@ -5112,6 +5112,7 @@ getcompletion({pat}, {type} [, {filtered}]) *getcompletion()*
behave :behave suboptions
color color schemes
command Ex command (and arguments)
+ cmdline |cmdline-completion| result
compiler compilers
cscope |:cscope| suboptions
diff_buffer |:diffget| and |:diffput| completion
@@ -5142,14 +5143,19 @@ getcompletion({pat}, {type} [, {filtered}]) *getcompletion()*
user user names
var user variables
- If {pat} is an empty string, then all the matches are returned.
- Otherwise only items matching {pat} are returned. See
- |wildcards| for the use of special characters in {pat}.
+ If {pat} is an empty string, then all the matches are
+ returned. Otherwise only items matching {pat} are returned.
+ See |wildcards| for the use of special characters in {pat}.
If the optional {filtered} flag is set to 1, then 'wildignore'
is applied to filter the results. Otherwise all the matches
are returned. The 'wildignorecase' option always applies.
+ If {type} is "cmdline", then the |cmdline-completion| result is
+ returned. For example, to complete the possible values after
+ a ":call" command: >
+ echo getcompletion('call ', 'cmdline')
+<
If there are no matches, an empty list is returned. An
invalid value for {type} produces an error.