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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Sending two keys in series during autocompletion confirmation
I have the following mapping:
inoremap <expr><CR> pumvisible() && complete_info().selected != -1? "\<C-y>" : "\<CR>"
inoremap <expr><Space&...
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Neovim: Select an autocomplete option with <tab> instead of <return>
In the example below, how do I use <tab> to select HttpResponse the item instead of <enter>? I'd like to make this change permanent.
This is using Kite within vim in case it matters.
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How to write a fast auto completion for font names?
I am new to Vim.
I recently installed the YouCompleteme (YCM) plugin, and realized it would be great if I could complete font-names. Let's say I type fn:, it should bring up a popup menu to help me ...
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How do I get filename completion to ignore a leading '/'?
In a Jekyll file I have
<IMG SRC="/assets/images/
I would like to use the filename autocompletion shortcut to insert the rest of the filename, but this fails because of the leading slash.
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Complete text with one tap
I use a plugin called supertab( ervandew/supertab) that provide completion options. A menu automatically appears after I type 2 characters.
What I want to do, is to have a mapping that completes the ...
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Convert absolute path to one relative to another absolute one
Context
I’m working on an 'omnifunc' function for Markdown editing. It’s supposed to help me link to other Markdown files while I’m typing a link – based on file content though, not file name.
Suppose ...
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Automatically place closing curly brace on new line
Mainstream editors usually place closing curly brace on the new line automatically while entering function bodies and conditional constructs in languages with curly braced syntactic blocks. Vim/Neovim ...
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Show path of file from where the code autocompletion is coming from
When doing auto completion with CTRL+n, I see autocompletion suggestions from the current file as well as from different other files all mixed together as seen below:
I would like to get a behavior ...
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Link a yaml file with a python file for auto completion
I have yaml files and python scripts. Is it possible to make one-one mapping between yaml and python files for auto completion?
I have to define information in yaml files rather often and there are ...
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Select nothing when omni completion activated?
When omni completion activated,a menu pop up waiting to select,which key could i press if i want to select nothing in the menu and input whatever else?
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autocompletion - set iskeyword disabling highlights
I have set up some syntax highlights for some patterns, for example: sc.nextInt() nextInt will be highlighted as a Function... Then I have included :set iskeyword+=(,.,) in order for autocompletion ...
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Indent line in xml after omni-completion
When editing xml, lines are indented when pressing (among others) <, > or <CR> according to the indentkeys setting. For example:
<tag>
</tag|
If the cursor is on | and I ...
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How to prevent inserting a new line on using ctrl+n for autocomplete?
When I use CTRL+n to autocomplete words a newline is inserted when I select a word from the list by pressing ENTER.
I don't want that, I want it to just insert the word and place the cursor at the end ...
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How to display additional info for a completion option in second popup menu
The coc.nvim plugin has a really cool feature where the completion, or at least the python completion, will have additional information about the option in a second popup menu. I have looked through a ...
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How to make deoplete to support Typescript?
I'm using NeoVim v0.4.4 on Mac with deoplete.
How can I configure it to support Typescript autocomplete?
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How to autocomplete path using alias root?
I'm working on frontend project, we're using root alias, like:
import from '~/src/components/button';
instead of:
import from '../../../../../components/button';
But when I try to import from ~/, my ...
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How to fix/customise coloring for the autocompletion popup menu?
I'm not really happy with the syntax coloring of the auto-completion menu.
Probably the pink-ish background color is the least unpleasant thing, but the grey foreground text is really not as readable ...
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Making clangd LSP recognizing GNU-specific headers
I have coc.nvim installed for autocompletion in vim. I usually include bits/stdc++.h(GNU-specific) in my files for competitive programming.
I use the g++ compiler so I have no trouble there, but since ...
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vim-pandoc bibliography completion works only when writing a new file with GVim
I have installed vim-pandoc, as suggested here. When I open Vim in the terminal I get only 'Omni completion (^O^N^P) Pattern not found' errors. echo pandoc#bibliographies#Find_Bibliographies() returns ...
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omnifunc with ctags for C struct members
I'm trying to setup Vim to use ctags to autocomplete struct members when I press C-x C-o, but I get Pattern not found error. I tried both with . and ->. Vim can find tags file because I can jump to ...
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Hidden files and folders are hidden / ignored in wildmenu
As mentioned, when using <TAB> completion, hidden files do not show up.
E.g. :e <TAB> only shows non-hidden files.
:verbose set wildignore?
wildignore=
A similar question is here, while ...
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Use autocompletion options from terminal buffer in editor buffer
I typically work with a text editor combined with a REPL terminal, and I send text from the editor to the terminal. For example, I use two side-by-side buffers, one for editing text, and one with a ...
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How to store entries of complete menu and omnicomplete menu in variables without triggering the popup menu?
Is there a way to store the results of <C-N> or <C-X><C-O> from the insert mode in a string or list variable without triggering the respective popup menus to display onscreen? For ...
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Get autocompletion of script names in $PATH
I would like to know how I could set up script names auto completion in vim ?
For example let's say I have myscript.sh in ~/bin and ~/bin is in my $PATH, I would like to type mys in vim and get auto ...
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line-completion based on non-initial substring
Is there a way to perform a completion similar to <c-x><c-l>, but completes lines based on an arbitrary substring rather than a leading prefix of the line? I'm especially interested in a ...
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:set completeopt=menuone does not always show menu on the commandline
:set completeopt=menuone does not always show the menu. For example pressing :vs<tab> on the command line one would expect the menu to appear, with the singular option vsplit. What happens ...
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Why use coc and not only the single plugins providing code completion for a language?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the necessity of the coc plugin, since if I have it installed it still needs the coc-vimtex plugin for LaTeX support (which I get is necessary since not all languages ...
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Vim: How to have YouCompleteMe autocomplete shell script variable names and functions from “source”d files?
I use macvim with YouCompleteMe (YCM), which I recently updated and recompiled. I followed the YCM instructions for OSX. I'm also using iterm2, tmux and zsh, all of which are installed with brew and ...
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Code snippet completion for vim in C++
I have YouCompleteMe installed; however that only complete certain words or phrases. I am looking for something similar in VSCode or Emacs' Yasnippet. For example, if I type if, then press Tab, then ...
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How to Keep Syntax Color but Disable Highlighting in Vim?
I recently activated auto-complete using YouCompleteMe and syntax color in Vim. However, a red highlighting color appeared.
I tried to disable syntax color with syntax off, but this highlighting ...
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Is it possible to use word completion (e.g. `Ctrl-N`) in Ex mode?
I want to use word completion in Ex mode, similar to using Ctrl-N in Insert mode to complete the current word.
Suppose, I want to do a substitution: :%s/<pattern>/<replacement>/gc. If the ...
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How does ft-c-omni work and how can I make it faster?
As I was studying the various ways of doing completion in Vim 8.0, I came across the very interesting "omni-completion" feature and its 'omnifunc' option, which is specialized as ccomplete#...
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<C-x><C-o> “Pattern not found” even with a Ctags file (C/C++)
<C-x><C-o> returns Pattern not found in C/C++ files even with a ctags file.
It used to work and I haven't made any configuration/plugin changes that I know of
Starting vim with vim -u ...
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omni complete throwing “E119: Not enough arguments for function: 1” error
I have <C-x><C-o> working just fine with neovim with my old vim configuration but when I switch over to my new config, I'm not having any luck and I can't figure out why.
When I hit <C-...
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vim omni-complete and c++20
I have used vim for C++ development for quite a while now where, for auto completion, i would either use YCM or, lately, the combination of LanguageClient-neovim and clangd. Lately, however, having ...
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Auto-completion pop-up no clean up - how to debug
I'm trying to solve this issue for some time now. Quite often auto-suggestion pop-up leaves a text on the screen:
even after being closed
sometimes covering newer suggestion that was displayed after ...
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Put a tab autocompleted path into current buffer
I use autocompletion a lot, especially for long path names:
e.g.
$ /home/au/Doc<tab> <tab>uments/A<tab> <tab>\ file\ with\ a\ very\ long\ name
This can be performed within ...
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Keep <C-X> <C-F> filename completion menu alive between directories
I'd like to use <C-X> <C-F> to autocomplete a long filename in insert mode, say /foo/bar/baz.txt. When I type in /f, I can press <C-X> <C-F> to complete to /foo/. However, ...
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Use the buffers auto completion in an input() dialogue
I am trying to add autocompletion, with suggestions from the currently edited buffer when reading input from the user for a search string:
function! Testinput()
return input("Enter search string: ...
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Unmap <c-n> / <c-p> in completion menu to use as previous / next snippet placeholder with Coc
My completion mappings scheme with coc is the following:
<c-@> (ctrl-space): trigger the menu / use the selected item (or the first one)
<c-j> and <c-k>: navigate the list (or also ...
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How to get auto completion provided by <C-N> without typing <C-N>?
I like the simple auto completion provided by Ctrl-N but not typing Ctrl-N everytime to get the completion.
I would like it to work similar to how YouCompleteMe works with automatic suggestions. If ...
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How to (auto) complete filenames?
Developing in nodejs I have a lot of custom module require statements in my javascript source files, like this one:
//
// my nodejs program:
// path/to/projecthome/lib/someModule.js
//
const EMOJI = ...
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How to enable autocomplete for writing in English?
Is there a way to enable autocomplete for writing in English? For example, if I write giv, I want Vim to automatically suggest give, given, gives, giving, giveaway, etc.
In Emacs, this is easy to ...
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Shell scripting: A more elegant way to complete then…fi, do…done, case…esac pairs?
The problem
In shell scripting, conditionals and loops don't use curly braces to indicate blocks, but rather special keywords: if [ ... ]; then statements close with fi, while [ ... ]; do statements ...
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neovim ruby/rails omnicomplete
I'm trying to get omnicomplete working in neovim (0.3.4) on debian 10 with Ruby 2.6.6 (rbenv).
I have these plugins:
Plug 'vim-ruby/vim-ruby' " ruby ...
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How to make Vim autocomplete with file system?
Let's say I have my directory/file tree as follows:
/
|_home
|_myPC
|_script.sh
|_test.sh
|_etc
|_log.txt
I'm working on script.sh and Vim has nothing like firejail to stop it from ...
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How to auto-complete filenames in sub-directories when opening them for editing using e.g. `:e </path/to/file>`?
How to autocomplete filenames in sub-directories when opening them for editing using e.g. :e </path/to/file>?
When opening files in sub-directories for editing using e.g. :e </path/to/file&...
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How to set a maximum popup window height for auto completion?
As title, when there're tens of suggestions, the popup can expand the entire window. How to set a maximum window height for auto completion popup? I'd like to have a scrolling window.
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How to explicitly open the signature preview window when not completing?
When using <c-x><c-o>, vim opens a signature preview window which is different from the one opened when using :ptag.
How to open that one when not completing like when reviewing in ...
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Rails Vim tab completition for model and controller works different than for views
I'm using Vim with Rails Vim plugin. When trying to tab-complete command :Emodel U or :Econtroller U and then <Tab> it won't recognize the user.rb or user_controller.rb file. But works fine for :...
