Questions tagged [autocompletion]
For questions about the several commands to complete part of a keyword or line that has been typed.
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coc not working in latest vim
I've installed coc following the instruction, using Vim-Plug (before that I did it without installing yarn and with kite still (partially) installed. I got a 'javascript file not found' error So I ...
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C-N using try-catch
When using autocompletion with <C-n>, if no matching string is found, vim shows the message Pattern not found into the status bar.
I tried something with this simple function:
function! TestCN(...
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How to fix this `Omni completion (^O^N^P) Pattern not found` error?
I am trying to set up syntax keyword based omnicompletion in vim.
I have defined a few syntax keyword Constants in ~/.config/nvim/syntax/spl.vim
They are correctly detected and highlighted.
They are ...
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call omnicompletion from vimscript
I'd like to automatically call the omnicompletion (that is triggered manually by <Ctrl-X><Ctrl-O>) from within a vimscript function.
I played around a bit with execute 'normal! …' and ...
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How to print a list of possible matches from C-n?
That is, doing autocompletition with C-n, is there a way to obtain the list of possible matches, same as returned into the popup menu ?
Given the example below
is it possible to retrieve {aaa, aaab, ...
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Autocompletion doesn't work when using ALE + deoplete
From my init.vim (I've checked that it doesn't work even with a minimal configuration):
call plug#begin()
Plug 'Shougo/deoplete.nvim', { 'do': ':UpdateRemotePlugins' }
Plug 'dense-analysis/ale'
Plug '...
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What is the “stuck text” that happens on my screen as a byproduct of a plugin? How can I remove it?
When I'm using Vim in the terminal, I sometimes get stuff like this:
The square bracket floating is what I'm talking about. When my autocompleter plugin stops completing, sometimes it "forgets" to ...
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“Wait” key in :map
In my .vimrc i have
:imap .. .<C-x><C-o>
and it work as it should (double dot to open menu with fields).
But I also want to be able type text like [1..MAX] as you can see here vim will ...
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navigating dictionary completion
In my vimrc I have the following mappings:
set completeopt=longest,menuone,preview
inoremap <C-h> <C-n>
inoremap <C-k> <C-p>
inoremap <Leader>k <C-x><C-k&...
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What is the difference between loaded and unloaded buffers?
I was looking at the documentation for the 'complete' option, and I found it a bit confusing:
. scan the current buffer ('wrapscan' is ignored)
w scan buffers from other windows
b scan other ...
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How to remap Autocomplete on Control+N, to Control+Space?
I am trying to remap this functionality:
to Ctrl+Space, by using this line in .vimrc
inoremap <C-Space> <C-n>
However, I can not seem to get it to work.
If I press Ctrl+Space after ...
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How can I complete both words and WORDS? [duplicate]
I found this question, but mine is a bit different.
When I write code dealing with arrays or classes like $myArray['myElement'] or document.getElementById("myElement"), I get annoyed because I have ...
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How to get YouCompleteme to work with kernel headers
I am taking an OS class and we have an upcoming assignment involving Kernel modules.
I'm reading Wiley OS text to prepare and they have the below code.
I keep on getting an error that the header files ...
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Sophisticated autocompletion in Vim in a VScode manner
I'm currently switching to Vim as my main text editing tool and I try to investigate if it is possible to make Vim behave like VScode when it comes to autocompletion. I got really used to the way ...
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Can I disable insert-mode completion (ins-completion) key mapping (CTRL-X)?
Because the keys d and xare used in normal mode to delete letters, I map <ctrl-d> and <ctrl-x> in insert mode to delete and backspace.
However, when I started to use completion plugin (I ...
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How to show completion menu when typing EX-command?
When I use MS Windows version gvim, when typing EX-command, I can press TAB then there will show a completion candidates menu.
For example, if I type :colorscheme then a space then press TAB, gvim ...
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How to get this tab/autocompletion setup?
Basically what I want is a PyCharm-like completion:
If there is only whitespace, insert <TAB>.
If pum is visible and nothing is selected, complete with first, otherwise choose the selected word/...
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getting vim to autocomplete python methods
I am coming from statically types languages, but I will have to be using python for the next few years and I want to get my setup as smooth as possible.
Right now I am using vim-jedi, and deoplete-...
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How to enable “on-the-fly” autocompletion?
How can I make it so that no command or extra keystroke is required for the autocompletion menu to pop up?
i.e. what I want is the menu to be always present while in insert mode and to be constantly ...
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Autocompletion plugin for c/c++ with specific header path?
Is there a plugin which autocompletes C/C++ code from specific headers given in a specific path (i.e. /path/)?
If I include some headers from that path, I would get autocompletion from given header.
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Cancel command line completion insert
I notice a different behavior in command line completion from the regular completion in a buffer. Usually even if I select and item from the completion menu, CTRL-E cancels the completion and reverts ...
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Temporary normal mode doesn't wait for the command
When I press C-o in insert mode, the expected behaviour is that vim will wait for me to execute a single command and then returns to insert mode. Usually, after pressing C-o I have all the time in the ...
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Prevent “Pattern not found” error in autocompletition (i_Ctrl-N)
I use the following mapping for <Tab>:
inoremap <expr> <Tab> getline('.')[col('.') - 2] =~ '\w' ? "<C-N>" : "<Tab>"
It works well except that if I want to insert a tab ...
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Adding directory (header and source) to autocompletition search
I use Ctrl+P and Ctrl-N for autocompletition, and since I have library sources in another directory, like
/opt/ST/STM32F4xx_DSP_StdPeriph_Lib_V1.8.0/Libraries/STM32F4xx_StdPeriph_Driver/inc
/opt/ST/...
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Next tab completion item
I was seeing how the different default colorschemes look like in vim. To do that I typed :colo, then space and tab. But then when I want to set the next one, I have to press tab a lot of times to get ...
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Autocompletion filenames with prefix in variable
In Vim I make auto-completion of the filesystem paths just by the shortcut Ctrl + x, Ctrl + f, in insert mode.
In a Makefile I sometimes put a path's prefix in a variable. For instance STYLEDIR=/home/...
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ctrl-n - should not insert text
When I am using the ctrl-n functionality (autocomplete word), it just inserts the text. I do not want to do that, instead, I would want to choose a word from the dropdown list, which I may then want ...
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Make <Esc> close completion menu and cancel selection, without side effects
I would like to make my Vim completion menu a little more IDE-like, and I was able to achieve this using the bindings suggested here. However, the <Esc> binding causes a bit of a problem:
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How to omit dictionary source file in dictionary completion
<C-X><C-K>
complete words with long dictionary file name, such as /home/xxx/.vim/mydict.
I'd like to omit or shorten the descriptive info.
I have googled but got no hints.
Any advice?
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Cycle through autocomplete menu using tab
I am activating my autocomplete menu in vim using:
inoremap <C-@> <C-n>
and after it opened and only when it opened I would like to use the "tab" key to cycle through the menu. But when ...
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Integrating autocomplete and snippets
I'm trying to set up an autocompletion/snippet workflow that's a bit complicated. This is stemming from needing a better workflow for latex. Right now I'm using coc.nvim and UltiSnippets but I am ...
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Omni completion Pattern not found - Error loading rails environment
I'm trying to make Omni completion work with my Ruby files, but it only works with Ruby's core libraries; for instance, after typing
String.<C-X><C-O>
i get all Ruby's String methods, ...
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How can I get the autocompletion databases on VIM using YouCompleteMe?
I just wanted to add the completion functionality on vim. For that reason, I went for YouCompleteMe plugin. It worked well with the following configuration on my .vimrc file:
execute pathogen#infect()...
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Is it possible to have auto suggestion of schema names?
(tag suggestions welcome)
I've just started learning Vim.
My other text editor, which I use for writing Hive queries is a browser based editor which has this very useful feature of auto suggesting ...
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Fuzzy / smart / intellisense completion in input mode
Standard Vim completion supposes that you type in the beginning of the word, then press CTRL-N, and get all the words that begin with the prefix you typed in.
In my situation, prefixes are mostly the ...
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file name completion in .gitignore
I often "unignore" files in .gitignore, like this:
*
!.gitignore
!file.txt
!dir
!dir/*
Can I modify the pattern for which insert mode file name completion would work? In this case, instead of ./ I'd ...
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How to navigate in auto completion menu, when arrows are disabled in .vimrc
Reason for my question: It's not the first time I have cancelled my arrow keys in vim, and the improvments in my typing is again tremendous. I wish to keep arrow keys non effective inside vim.
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autocompletion - How to add phrases as thesaurus synonyms
I have a thesaurus file which contains synonyms for the word iterate. I would like to add an alternative phrase for iterate like loop over so I added it to the thesaurus. Unfortunately, this doesn't ...
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`q` does not record tab completion correctly
Whenever I want to record complex macro between qa and q, I have to remember that, for instance, I can't use Tab-completion while type some ex command, otherwise the macro will not work.
Have I ...
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Supertab inserts tabulation instead of autocompleting
I have supertab installed alongside with vim-go.
Next, I'd like to have autocomplete when writing in Go, but when I press tab its literally inserts a tab character instead of showing the autocomplete ...
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non-word characters in tags
I have tags (generated with ctag) of the form
eq:local-canonical-form
Now:
because of the : I cannot use eq:loc<c-x><c-]> to expand the tag.
because of the : and the - I cannot use <...
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vim recorded session like doitlive
I have a presentation to make for a conference and I'm not allowed to use slides, only live coding.
Is there a tool in vim which will help me avoid typos ? :)
Something like doitlive which you can ...
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How to get html tag auto completion?
I can't seem to figure out how to implement auto tag completion for html.
Is there a plug-in or something else you guys use that works? Is there just one thing I can download that will handle ...
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Easiest way to insert LaTeX matrix?
Recently I found myself in a situation that need to type in quite a number of matrices to LaTeX by hand, so I was wondering if there are some tools that can help me to save some keystrokes.
The ...
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customize Ex command completion
vim provides a nice way to complete the Ex commands, which uses the -complete=custom,Func or complete=customlist,Func. It also provides many predefined completion methods such as -complete=dir.
Is is ...
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Unable to repeat comment string for new line
Vim has the option to automatically continue comments when a new line is entered as described here. This currently works perfectly for // and # in .cpp and .python files respectively.
I tried to add ...
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Is it possible to type “return + shift” to insert a new line in deoplete?
Here is a situation. I use deoplete but since the pop-up menu when I type in something already puts the cursor at the first item on the list, when I type in return, it inserts a new line.
So I want ...
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remap keybinding for vim gocode autocomplete feature? (remap keybinding in insert mode) [duplicate]
So I installed vim-go and gocode and Blackrush/vim-gocode.git (the latter because I use pathogen).
So far so good! I am fine, I can type <C-x><C-o> in insert mode and I get completion ...
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Question about autocompletion in Vim editor and html document
Why does one of Vim's autocomplete functions (ctrl+n) not work in html documents, while the other (ctrl+p) still does?
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How to automate Vim's native auto-completion with a drop-down menu?
I know there is a ton of plugins and topics that discussing about auto-completion things in Vim!
I just need the Vim's native auto-completion to be automated!
auto-suggestion words, etc from ...
