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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 5a01724920..b96fc4ac01 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -4449,7 +4449,7 @@ getcompletion({pat}, {type} [, {filtered}]) *getcompletion()* augroup autocmd groups buffer buffer names behave :behave suboptions - cmdline |cmdline-completion| + cmdline |cmdline-completion| result color color schemes command Ex command (and arguments) compiler compilers @@ -4482,14 +4482,19 @@ getcompletion({pat}, {type} [, {filtered}]) *getcompletion()* user user names var user variables - If {pat} is an empty string then all 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. |