Robert Webb wrote:
> Bram 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.
>
> Yes, you did fix something, but the description above is what I saw in
> the final 7.0 release.
Try using CTRL-N instead of CTRL-P. CTRL-P wraps around the end and
that runs in the problem we had before when still searching.
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