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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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 ...
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Return from command autocomplete
If I type :e foo/**/foo*.js and hit tab then vim replaces the *s with all possible suggestions in the filepath. What if I realized that I wasn't specific enough (there are too many results in ...
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How to enable dictionary autocompletion without spell option set
I noticed, that in any source code file, regardless of the programming language, I can use the dictionary autocompletion (Ctrl + x Ctrl+k) if the spell option is set, if it's not, then the editor ...
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Close particular buffer immediately upon leaving it
I have a really large file with many paths in it. I don't want it to participate in any of the completion mechanisms. Is there a way to mark a particular buffer as "not a candidate for keyword ...
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Why can't complete month in txt file?
Part of setting in my .vimrc.
cat .vimrc
autocmd FileType txt setlocal omnifunc=CompleteMonths
fun! CompleteMonths(findstart, base)
if a:findstart
" locate the start of the word
let line = ...
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pythoncomplete can't complete python's build-in functions?
filetype plugin on
autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
I found that pythoncomplete can't complete python's build-in functions.
vim test.py
import os
os. #Now the complete ...
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Auto activate autocompletion
I would like to have autocompletion active on its own like on sublime text without doing Ctrl+n.
I would like to have this without any none native plugins as the already existing autocompletion in ...
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How to call both javascript and php complete in editing html file with vim?
I have installed tern_for_vim and setted complete in .vimrc.
autocmd FileType javascript setlocal omnifunc=tern#Complete
autocmd FileType php set omnifunc=phpcomplete#CompletePHP
Now i can call ...
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Why — ^X mode (^]^D^E^F^I^K^L^N^O^Ps^U^V^Y) Pattern not found?
vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.0 (2016 Sep 12, compiled Sep 30 2017 18:21:38)
Included patches: 1-197, 322, 377-378, 550, 703, 706-707
Modified by pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
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Is it possible to put the cursor on the first item on auto-completion?
I added and use deoplete to get a list of completion while typing. However, typing in a word shows the completion list with the cursor being nowhere on the list.
On some IDEs like Xcode, when you ...
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Using getcompletion function for insert mode autocompletion
I recently became aware of the getcompletion function which can return autocompletion options for a variety of different things (shell commands, vim autocommand events, files, etc.). Many of the ...
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Issues with autocomplete in vim8
I have installed two vim plugins javacomplete2 and vim-emoji successfully but I'm not able to use their auto-prompting feature which enables the user to select an autocomplete suggestion without ...
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What is the difference between set complete+=t and set complete+=k in vim?
In this wikia tip I found set complete+=k and set complete+=t. I applied both but only the first one worked.
My question is what is the difference between these?
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How to configure autocompletion so that it replaces everything until non-word-char?
I'm using CTRL + n to do auto-completion when editing - since years.
One things that annoys me (and now I want the solution) is that the completion is not replaced characters until the next non-...
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Confirm selection among options
When searching for autocompletion on any command via Tab, now vim shows me a list of the available options:
I was used to push the right-arrow -> in order to select an option while navigating them ...
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autocompletion with node, visual studio style
There isn't much from VS Code I can't reproduce with neovim but working with javascript/node, I am quite jealous of the fact that the autocompletion works with any (or most?) libraries added to the ...
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Auto-complete popup menu: make Enter trigger newline if no item was selected
I like using the <CR> key to confirm my selection in the popup menu. However I don't like the <CR> key doing absolutely nothing when no item was selected in the menu -- in this case, it ...
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vim compiled with python3 but python3 omni-completion does not work
It used to work when I used python2, but now I can't use ^X^O to complete function names.
I do have vim with -python and +python3 (on Ubuntu 16.04), but here is the error I get when trying Ctrl-X ...
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Multiword completion (CTRL-X CTRL-P) to end of line
In insert mode, CTRL-P autocompletes a word from earlier in the buffer.
A subsequent CTRL-X CTRL-P will insert the word that followed that word.
canFail :: Either Error Success
canAlsoFail :: Ei█
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Completion suggestions while typing
I use Vim a lot for writing tasks and I used ^p for completions. However, is there a plugin that suggests you completions while typing like in Andriod-smartphones ?
Thanks.
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Remapping return key to <C-p>
Because I am used to autocompleting by pressing the return/enter key, I want to remap the return key to Ctrl-p in insert mode. However, I only want to remap it when the cursor is directly behind a ...
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Fish-like autosuggestions depending on 'completeopt'
I describe this as Fish-like as it is referenced as such by zsh-autocomplete, and I would define it as follows:
The appearance of a (temporary) automatically inserted completion match, that is ...
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Completion Function Return Value -1 Cancellation
From the vim documentation
FUNCTIONS FOR FINDING COMPLETIONS *complete-functions*
This applies to 'completefunc' and 'omnifunc'.
The function is called in two different ways:
- First the ...
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asyncomplete.vim: how can I automatically show the completion menu after two succeeding 'word'-characters?
I'm trying to configure asyncomplete.vim so that the completion menu is shown when inserting at least two succeeding 'word'-characters.
However, I'm having trouble understanding why asyncomplete#...
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gvim Linux - autocomplete plugin - enable / disable depending if the user is typing or not
I am using the autocomplete and I feel quite comfortable with it because it's minimalistic and simple.
But there is just a thing I dislike: sometimes it interferes with the mouse scrolling auto-...
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Filename completion without suffix
By using suffixesadd I can navigate modules without file extensions. However, when I import modules by using path completion(<C-X><C-F>) the file extensions do not get omitted. Are there ...
