Tip 116: Autocomplete Filenames

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References:

# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h compl-filename

• Vim's filenames autocompletion always expands paths relative to the working directory, not relative to the file that is currently being edited.