Ankur Jain wrote:
Hi,
I installed vim 7.0 on windows. But, I am facing 2 weird problems,
please help:
1. Vim is creating backup files even when I've switched it off. I've
specified
set nobackup
set nowritebackup
in my _vimrc. Still, it creates a backup file everytime I
modify/write a file.
Are your setting somehow tampered with? Try
:verbose set backup? writebackup?
(Don't forget the question marks, otherwise you would be setting them to
TRUE).
2. I cannot see a drop-down auto-completion window. I tried using
Ctrl-p/Ctrl-n keys as well, but it's not working. Do I need to specify
any specific setting on/off?
Please help
Regards
Ankur Jain
You need _one_ of the following in your vimrc to set filetype detection
on with filetype-plugins enabled:
filetype plugin on
filetype plugin indent on
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
-- to check it, use
:filetype
with no arguments; the answer should include "plugin:ON".
Then you need a filetype whose filetype-plugin supports omni-completion.
Several of them are shown under ":help compl-omni-filetypes". Or you
could see them all by doing
:help ft-*-omni<Ctrl-D>
And finally you trigger omni-completion by using Ctrl-X Ctrl-O in Insert
mode at a point in the text where there is something that the plugin
knows how to complete. Note that if there is only one possible
completion (as after </ in HTML, for instance) autocompletion will
happen without a menu.
HTH,
Tony.
