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?
What version are you using? I fixed a problem with <BS> just before
sending out Vim 7.
> I still think ^N/^P should wrap around the matches found so far while
> bim is searching in the background.
I didn't look into this, it's too complicated to fix just before a
release.
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