Autocompleting paths within scripts

Question

[DanielEB_fisk]

Hello community,

I am changing my remote file system to something more organized (based on Johny Decimal). This means that I have to go through the task of editing the paths in my scripts. I am now using vscode to connect to the remote server, which makes things easier. In order to make this even easier, I would like to be able to autocomplete paths from my own scripts (when editing them). Of course, hitting the tabulator just generates a tab instead of displaying the relative paths. Perhaps this is a stupid question, but does anyone know if there exist some manner of plugin or other option to autocomplete paths from scripts?

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Michael]

Not really a Bioinformatics question but generally very useful: vim can do that

[type some prefix of path]<Ctrl-x><Ctrl-f>

This needs whitespace to work. Possibly, you would rather make your scripts more portable in the future by getting paths to binaries from loading the corresponding conda environment instead.

[DanielEB_fisk]

Yep, sorry, you are right it is not a bioinformatics question. I asked here because it relates with the work we do anyway.