Vim's :open does not tab complete, what does?

Question

Instead of tab completed file or directory names, I see ^I

:open ./lib/^I^I^I

Is there another command that would offer tab completion, or perhaps another solution?

I'm considering replacing the following mapping with something that would use buffers, but want to keep tab completion.

map <C-O> :tabnew ./

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17326627/vims-open-does-not-tab-complete-what-does

Answer 1

That might be because :open is not the command you're looking for. Try :edit or :e for short. Also try :help :open and :help :e to see, what the commands do. :e has tab completion.