Questions tagged [popup-menu]
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Usual navigation motions in a popup window?
I'd like to write a file-tree/file-browsing plugin that uses popup windows.
In popup_create I can set a filter to capture keys. For instance,
popup_create('hello world', {filter: 'popup_filter_menu'})
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Search within Popup menu
When I use the completion menu (<C-n>, <C-x><C-i>), sometimes the popup menu gives me a lot of options to choose from.
Sometimes I know parts of what I'm looking for at the end of ...
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Popup menu highlight issues when it is called for the second time
Consider the following snippet:
vim9script
var colors = getcompletion('', 'color', true)
def PopupFilterColor(id: number, key: string): bool
if index(['j', "\<down>", "\<c-...
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Is it possible to get the index of the highlighted selection of a popup_menu before confirming?
Typically, in a popup_menu you select a line and once you confirm it a callback function that takes popup window ID and index of the selection is invoked.
I am wondering if it is possible to get the ...
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Creation of a short document description for programming languages in a pop-up window like vscode?
How can we have a short summary about documents of programming languages (Python and Javascript is important for me) or frameworks in Neovim? I want to see a short description of APIs and keywords in ...
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pum#map#inser_relative(+1) command remap which worked forever recently stopped working
I have a pum command which does tab autocomplete on a completion list and it recently stopped working and I do not know why. The command...
inoremap <silent><expr> <TAB>
\ pum#...
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How to automatically close a terminal popup window if a python script run in it didn't return any error?
I am wondering if there is a way to automatically close a popup window running a terminal if the execution of the last program didn't report any error and to keep it open if the execution of the last ...
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Help in positioning a popup menu in the screen
I am using MacVim and I wish a popup menu to always appear in the lower right corner of the screen (not the current window).
I am using the following command:
popup_create(items, {
title: " ...
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Popup to show number of matches of a given string while in insert mode, and while completion popup is being shown
This is a follow up to a previous question.
Thanks to that, I could come up with this augroup:
augroup Foo
autocmd!
autocmd TextChangedI,TextChangedP * call <SID>foo()
fun s:foo()
let ...
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How to limit number of Vim-LSP suggestions from Vim-LSP itself
Even though Vim has its pum stuff, more specifically pumheight for this problem, I would expect Vim-LSP (prabirshrestha/vim-lsp) to have something similar for itself as well, after all a language ...
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Can a popup_menu's callback access its popup_menu's first argument?
For now I have the feeling the answer is no, but I'm asking to make sure that's the case, and to know if people has found workarounds or can suggest good approaches.
From :help popup_menu I've found ...
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How to map <C-z> to act like <C-y> in completion menu?
My keyboard has z and y switched compared to US keyboards, which makes pressing C-y for completions pretty awkward. I tried adding
imap <expr> <C-z> pumvisible() ? "<C-y>" :...
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Disable coc diagnostic popups
How do I disable coc diagnostic popups (such as unused variable)?
I have suggestions disabled with "suggest.autoTrigger": "none" but I'm struggling to figure out how to disable on-...
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forced inserted ^Z in coc
I'm using the plugin coc for autocompletion.
My problem is that when coc opens the pop up menu with the completion items and I continue typing then a ^Z character is inserted in the buffer as shown in ...
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how to disable the new popup file-picker on :w
If I try to write a file under a new name, instead of being able to edit an existing name provided by file-completion, I get a pop-up that only lets me select an existing one.
I saw a description of ...
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Signature popup has unreadable colors in YCM for Rust
I'm using Vim 8.2 with rust highlighter and YCM plugin for auto-completion and signature help.
Everything works except method signature:
It has same color for both color text and bg in parts like ...
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Insert mode's CTRL-E and CTRL-Y vs popup menu
I was wandering that sometimes I'd like CTRL-E and CTRL-Y to work even while I'm in insert mode. Before setting up any mapping I thought I should see if I'm shadowing some important functionality, so ...
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Popup menu: Set a selected item on creation
I have a popup_menu. I want to have the second, for example, option chosen when it opens, rather than the first.
Is this possible? I've looked in various threads on the internet and :help popup and ...
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Show popup menu of files which call a specific function vim
In normal mode, I'll hover over a function declaration and I want to open a file which calls this function.
How can I open up the popup menu in normal mode and have it just open the file I select ...
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How can I overlap windows, use non-rectangular windows, or dock a window in the corner?
I'm working on a text file (my notes/todo document), and I want to have the to-do list part of the document open in one Vim window (to check things off), with another to look at the rest of the ...
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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 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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Display file contents in a popup window upon pressing a key?
I am having a text file where I have a cheat sheet of commands I learned.
When pressing some key ,it should be displayed in popup window. In Kakoune editor they display a help using Alt+i , like that ...
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How to gF (go to file Particular line) to popup window?
In vim8 there is a popup window feature which seems like vscode peek definition. Often I use gF to go to file with particular line number. Is there a way to open a file in popup window?
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Disabling hint popup
Whenever my cursor is over a function for a few seconds, this hint for the function pops up. Doesn't go away by hitting Esc and I need to move my cursor to get rid of it.
No other plugins except ...
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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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Sync cursors of popup window and current window
I'm trying to sync the cursors movement of a popup window, and the current window.
call range(50)
\ ->map({_, i -> string(i)})
\ ->popup_create(#{
\ line: 1,
\ col: 1,
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Scrolling down in popup window not working as intended
I have the following code:
let text = range(50)->map({_,i -> string(i)})
let winid = popup_create(text, {
\ 'line': 1,
\ 'col': 1,
\ 'minwidth': 1,
\ 'minheight': 1,
\ '...
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How to display popup window on the left or right side
I looked into the :h popup.txt and unless i missed something, did not see any mention for setting a popup window on the left or right side.
PS: I'm on Vim 8.2 (latest compiled as of now)
Any example ...
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How to open folds in a pedit-preview popup window?
I'm displaying a file contents by using :pedit …the-file-path…, to then call popup_setoptions(…the-ID…,#{firstline:anumber}) in order to scroll the popup and highlight/show the desired part of the ...
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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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How to set cursor position in a popup buffer?
I'm tinkering with popups and trying to open one, select a line (namely set the cursor line by pressing mapped keys (Ctrln / Ctrlp)), then close it. The problem is that I cannot select a line, despite ...
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Popup border is ugly, how can I make it look nice?
This is the default border, it looks ugly
This is the FZF preview window. It looks pretty nice. How can I make Vim's popups look rounded like FZF's window?
Update: thanks @ralf ! it works !
I ...
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Highlight group for signature help
I'm using Vim (v. 8.2) with YouCompleteMe as a code completion engine. I welcome the addition of signature help, but I'm not happy with the default colors:
Does anyone know what highlight group is ...
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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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What are the new "popup windows" in Vim 8.2?
The latest version of Vim, 8.2, has a new feature called "popups" or "popup windows". They sound interesting but I'm not quite sure what they're good for. Can you enlighten me...preferably with some ...
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