>
> It's too complicated already, adding another option will mainly cause
> more users to get confused. Also, I wouldn't know what to set it to for
> C.
It's not that confusing. This is not a good reason for not implementing
something like 'completedelim'. A better reason would be that nobody
feels like implementing it and documenting it. So far there are three
options starting with "complete". This is complicated? I thought
Vim/Emacs are ultra configurable... and the menu/completion system is a
big feature.
If it were up to me, I would have an option for what characters end the
completion, and also what characters select the current completion and
then end the completion... or something like that. Maybe not. At least
something like completedelim.
I thought about this a bit more today, and I agree that adding a new
option is
not the proper solution. Not because it would confuse users, but because
the set of characters that end a completion could depend on the completion
method, so setting them at the filetype level wouldn't work.
For example, the standard keyword completion (<c-n> and <c-p>) only spans word
characters. Any non-word character should end the completion. Conversely, a
user defined, or omni completion function may span back over non-word
characters.
Without knowing anything about how you've implemented the code completion
internally, I'd guess that perhaps you could let the completion function
decide when to start a new completion by invoking the completion function
again and comparing the original starting column position with the new one.
If they differ, then the function has deemed that it no longer considers the
non-word character part of the original completion.
You've mentioned a few times how the code completion logic is getting
complicated, but is that a good reason for leaving in known issues? Perhaps
after you have released vim70, vim71 should get a bit of an overhaul in this
area now that you've encountered a broader range of use cases. While I find
the current behavior I described in my original email very annoying, I still
wouldn't consider it a show stopper for the final release of vim70. However,
it would be a shame to never fix it just because it's "complicated".
--
eric
