Prabir Shrestha wrote:
> Currently `TextChangedI` isn't triggered when the popup menu is
> visible. This means all autocomplete plugins have to use timer based
> hacks.
> Would it be possible to have a new event something like
> `TextChangedIEx` which is triggered regardless of popup menu being
> visible or not? This way I could use timer as fallback instead in
> [asyncomplete.vim](https://github.com/prabirshrestha/asyncomplete.vim).
> All other async completion plugins -
> [completor.vim](https://github.com/maralla/completor.vim),
> [deoplete](https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim),
> [ncm](https://github.com/roxma/nvim-completion-manager) also seems to
> use timer based hacks.
> I'm also writing a [language server plugin for
> vim](https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp) and see a use case
> here to detect text document changes.
Sounds like a reasonable request. Whoevern uses the new event will be
responsible for working with the popup menu.
It's probably easier to trigger this event only when the popup menu is
visible. You can listen to both events if you like, or trigger
different code in each case.
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