vim wildmenu drill down into directories

Question

I use vim to try to search for a file to open. I have wildmenu=full.

Pressing <tab> pushes me to the next directory, but how do I drill down on the currently-selected directory? My current workflow is: type a char, delete it, <tab> to continue. There must be a better way!

Answer 1

Press <Down>.

The available keybindings are of course listed under :help 'wildmenu':

While the "wildmenu" is active the following keys have special
meanings:

<Left> <Right> - select previous/next match (like CTRL-P/CTRL-N)
<Down>         - in filename/menu name completion: move into a
                 subdirectory or submenu.
<CR>           - in menu completion, when the cursor is just after a
                 dot: move into a submenu.
<Up>           - in filename/menu name completion: move up into
                 parent directory or parent menu.