Vi Hacks

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This is a guest post written by SathiyaMoorthy

You can perform automatic word completion in Vim using Ctrl-x in insert or append mode. By typing the first few characters of a word you can get the whole word either from a dictionary, or a thesaurus, or even the words that are already present on the file that you are editing.

This article explains how to perform following operations with examples and screen shots:

1. Word / pattern completion
2. Line completion
3. Dictionary word completion
4. File name completion
5. Filling up words with similar meaning (Thesaurus word completion).

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