Imagine I just typed `Hea' and the completion popup pops in with the wollowing words: Head, Hearst, Heath, Heather and Heaviside. To autocomplete with `Heater' I would move the selection to the right line using arrow keys or <C-N>/<C-P> and then would confirm the action with either Enter or <C-Y>.
What happens with the mapping above? When I press <Tab> to confirm the autocompletion, Vim closes the completion popup and insert a space at the end -- leaving me with `Hea ' instead of `Heather'. Is there a way to check for any interfering plugin? Maybe vim-autocomplpop? Cheers On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:03 PM, ZyX <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:47:29 PM UTC+4, Matteo Landi wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I would like to remap the <Tab> key so that vim will automatically pick > the current selected item from the completion popup. I thought it would > have been easy but was wrong; here is what I added to my .vimrc file: > > > > inoremap <expr> <Tab> pumvisible() ? "\<C-Y>" : "\<Tab>" > > > > Vim still keeps adding tabs rather than closing the completion popup. > Is it something wrong with that? Maybe other plugins interfering? I even > found at least two different resources where something like this is done, > but none of them worked. > > Works for me. Can you show what exactly did you type, what you expected to > see as a result and what you saw. > > Note that `"\<C-y>"` here actually produces string `"\"\\\<C-y>\""` > instead of `"\"\\<C-y>\""`. I.e. <C-y> gets replaced with control character > *before* string evaluation happens meaning that backslashes are useless > here. Since backslash-escaped control character inside double quotes is > just control character this does not do any harm *except* for misguiding > reader about <C-y> handling in this case: it is handled when doing :map > argument expansion and not expression evaluation. > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
