On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:27:02PM +1000, Robert Webb wrote:
> I'm still finding the ^P/^N behaviour in insert mode kind of annoying.
> I just did something like this:
> - Edit a file with the text "numMatches" in it.
> - Type "numMb" and hit ^P.
> - It's a typo so no matches come up. In the meantime vim starts
> madly searching through header files in the background.
> - Hit <BS>, then "a" to give the text "numMa".
> - Now it should find the right match. Vim still seems to be
> searching in the background. Is it supposed to find the correct
> match now straight away? It doesn't. Or is it up to me to hit
> ^P again?
> - If I hit ^P again, nothing happens. I can repeatedly hit it and
> no matches are found and no menu appears (note: all this is
> still while vim is searching in the background). In 6.3 this
> would have given me the right match.
> - So instead I try ^N. Now a menu appears with my original text
> ("numMa") and the match I want ("numMatches"), but no matter how
> many times I hit ^N it just stays stuck on the first item which
> was my original text! It's stuck again in a similar way to what
> I described in another email.
>
> What is supposed to happen when you hit <BS> then hit another letter
> during completion mode?
>
> I still think ^N/^P should wrap around the matches found so far while
> bim is searching in the background.
I tried this (using a different "wrong" character since this e-mail
contains "numMb" in it). Vim did not seem to search madly for matches,
but I did notice one annoyance. After I got to the "numMa" stage, the
completion menu shoed two options: "numMa" and "numMatches", but
neither was highlighted. Hitting <C-N> cycled through three states:
one or the other option was highlighted, or neither. Two of these
options have the same text, "numMa", in the buffer.
HTH --Benji Fisher
P.S. There have been times when hitting <C-N> removed characters that I
had typed, and I had to re-type them. I have not been able to figure
out how to reproduce this. :-(
