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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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 do you ignore paths on tab?
Specifically when running the find command? These instructions work great for ignoring folders I'd like to ignore when running :find, but most of the time I'd like to tab through the results because I ...
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How to make auto completion / suggestions of maped leader keys/letters while typing [duplicate]
How to dynamically show maped keys while typing leader (key sequence)? For example:
I type leader n and all options started with n shows up including some description. It would be usefull to have also ...
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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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Autocomplete popup is broken
I'm facing this trouble of vim that, if the line of text in the completion popup too long, it will be break the ui like this:
But like the bellow pic, it shown perfectly:
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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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Why can't map dot as hot key for both javascript and php complete?
I have set .vimrc to call both javascript and php complete in editing html file with vim.
tern_for_vim and YouCompleteMe installed.
ls .vim/bundle
phpcomplete.vim tabular tern_for_vim webapi-vim ...
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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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Supertab + merlin bizarre flickering interaction
I'm having an annoying problem with flicker under the Terminal app on OS X when using supertab and merlin together. (Using Vim 8.0 just for the sake of completeness). This problem presents itself when ...
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Context specific completion
I'd like to have a completion behave differently when inside javascript require function.
Custom completefunc/omnifunc seems like a starting point, but how do I make it context dependent? Such that ...
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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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Auto-complete with the slash while stepping down a path
How can I get vim to append a slash / while moving through a file system path in the command line (eg. with :tabfind) ?
Right now I am force to manually type it each time.
To reproduce the problem, ...
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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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Installed and configured NeoComplete but its still not working for C++
I've installed Neocomplete and copied the vimrc configuration that they provided. But cpp file isn't showing any auto completion. Kindly tell me what I am doing wrong.
Here is my vimrc:
"Note: This ...
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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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Integrating vim with python and anaconda?
Has anyone got a config for vim that works with anaconda environments and supports the following:
Autocomplete (also able to look up attributes of imported stuff)
Linting
This has been driving me ...
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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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Enable Ctrl+p by default in vim
How can I enable Ctrl+p by default in behaviour?
I mean pressing Ctrl+p after each object is too slow & I want vim to open the Ctrl+p completion list after typing any character of objects.
I am ...
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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 ...
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Remapping tab key to autocomplete in commandline mode in Vim
I am using Vim 7.4 and I wish to map the tab key so I can use new combinations to autocomplete arguments in command mode from the current directory
Contents of current directory:
Funwithstrings.cs ...
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Tab completion for filetypes in the commandline
If I want to set the filetype manually in vim, I would like to tab complete filetypes vim recognizes. However, right now vim just inserts a literal ^I
:set ft=markd^I
Is this possible?
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Vim crashes when using autocomplete
Some of the times I use YouCompleteMe, Vim 'half-crashes': I cannot continue coding in the current tab, but switching tab and coming back solves the issue.
The autocompletion works about 80% of the ...
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How to set -complete=customlist behavior?
Case
A user defined command to open files recursively in a directory.
The command
After weeks trying to get this to work, I got to the following code after trying to understand this answer:
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Map autocomplete word in normal mode?
I want to map , in normal mode to function as autocompleting a word <c-n> in insert mode. Also, I want to keep pressing , in normal mode to cycle through the list and then finally when I finish ...
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Autocomplete behavior in vim
I have autocomplpop plugin installed in my .vim directory. If I use gvim then autocompleting simply works automatically in insert mode without the need to press any CTRL-N to get the drop down list.
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Store vim external command result lines into a VimL array, to make a little custom autocomplete
This little snippet aims to make a little autocomplete script in VimL. the first code:
cat % | grep function | sed 's/(/ /g' | awk '{print $3}'
list all the method inside a php class. For example ...
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Fields in templates without resorting to commented-out lists (aka are drop-down options possible?)
I do a lot of work in plain TeX and XeTeX, editing the documents in vim, and have a variety of templates which I use to make the process more efficient. As you might expect, these use quite a lot of ...
