On Wednesday, December 27, 2017 at 7:21:38 PM UTC, Łukasz Jan Niemier wrote:
> Currently Vim allows only single line completions. This is quite limiting as
> there is also no way to determine beginning and end of the completed text so
> this leaves us in the limbo where we need to do some hackish things to
> achieve things like multiline snippets.
>
> Most obvious way to do such thing would be to make (:h complete-items):
>
> { 'word': "aaa\nbbb" }
>
> to insert 2 lines:
> aaa
> bbb
>
>
> Currently it inserts
> aaa^@bbb
>
>
> Where ^@ is NUL character (:h NL-used-for-NUL).
>
> The problems with multiline completion is that there will be open question
> how to handle indentation.
>
> Alternatively we could allow List as 'word' parameter where each line would
> be one item.
>
>
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I would be careful of underestimating the complexity of getting indentation
"right". The main problem being that it is probably highly subjective whether
or not the editor should reformat the completion item just because it contains
newlines.
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