[slim-vim] Critical features before you'd use Slim-vim

Brad Beveridge brad.beveridge at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 11:50:57 CDT 2006


On 17/07/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
<Snip>
> > The reason I put completion further down the list is
> > 1) I find Vim's autocomplete to be pretty good already
>
> Agree.
>
> > 2) Ideally we'd build it into Vim's new omni-complete (^X^N)
> >
> > Though I gotta say that I don't like having to hit ^X before ^N to
> > get at the omnicomplete functionalty.
>
> Agree.  Maybe we can map it to TAB or something.  The GUI (under X, at
> least) can distinguish between TAB, C-TAB, S-TAB, and C-S-TAB, so that
> might be an option.  Or we could just map it to space:
>
>   imap <space>  <c-x><c-n>
>
> :)
>
> (I just tried it though, and it sucks.  Need something else.  :)
>
<space> is already mapped to the "echo-arg-list" functionality.  How about
imap <c-o> <c-x><c-o>
That invokes omnicompletion mode, and you can then use CTRL-N and
CTRL-P to go through the options.  Not too dissimilar to what is there
already either.

Cheers
Brad


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