> -----Original Message----- > From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:54 PM > To: Jared Parsons > Cc: vim@vim.org > Subject: RE: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 at 2:23pm, Jared Parsons wrote: > > > I'm both working on a new plugin (C#) and using a couple of existing > ones. > > I tried the hack of returning the original text as well. It works if > you > > are using omni complete on demand. However I would like to add > automatic > > omni complete after certain characters such as '.'. In that case you > can't > > insert the existing text (there isn't any) and if you try and return '' > as > > one of the valid words omni complete will just ignore it. > > > > Jared > > Yep, I saw that problem as well. As I mentioned in one of my other > threads, I am trying to do automatic completion after every character > using CursorMovedI event, and observe this issue sometimes, even when I > always have some text to return. > > If you are triggering completion on say '.', see if you can > automatically rollback the completion by also doing a <C-P>. However you > might not find a hook to invoke <C-P> > > As a workaround, how about marking the start of completion as including > the "." character, and include "." also as the first result? This will > not work on the first column in the line, but I bet you will not face > that problem.
That's a good solution. The drop down will look a bit funny but it should solve the immediate issue. Is there a fix planned for this in the future. Some option I can specify to prevent auto-insertion of a match? -- Jared > > -- > HTH, > Hari > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:34 PM > > To: Jared Parsons > > Cc: vim@vim.org > > Subject: Re: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 at 11:46am, Jared Parsons wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to make omni complete popup a list of suggestions but > not > > > immediately add one of them to the buffer? I find omni complete very > > useful > > > but it's incredibly annoying that it auto-chooses one of the entries. > I'd > > > prefer it popup the list of suggestions but not modify the buffer. > > > > > > > You can workaround this by always returning the original text also as > > the first match. If you are writing a plugin, then it is easy for you to > > do this, but if you are using an existing plugin, you might have to wrap > > the original function and add the original text before returning it. The > > omni completion plugins should probably make this a standard setting. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
