Chapter 7: Meet the Completion Menu

Chapter Overview

Part IV: IDE Features | Tips 33-38

Understanding Vim’s completion architecture.

Tip	Title	Mastered
33	Understand the Completion Menu	[ ]
34	Use the completeopt Setting	[ ]
35	Select from the Completion Menu	[ ]

Tip

Title

Mastered

33

Understand the Completion Menu

[ ]

34

Use the completeopt Setting

[ ]

35

Select from the Completion Menu

[ ]

Completion menu behavior and configuration.

Option Effect

menu

Show popup menu

menuone

Show even with one match

noselect

Don’t auto-select first

noinsert

Don’t auto-insert text

preview

Show preview window

Command

Description

Notes

Commands I tried while reading:

" (Add commands you practiced)

The book discusses native completion. I use nvim-cmp:

-- nvim-cmp handles this automatically
-- but understanding native behavior helps

Things I want to explore further.

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