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    Vim autocomplete

    Kent Cowgill

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    on Thursday, March 06 2008, 2:23pm

    So, being able to use autocomplete in vim saved me a load of typing last night, though I suppose it still wore out my pinky hitting 'tab'.

    Do you prefer spaces to indent your code?

    Have no reason to ever insert a tab into your source?

    Enter vim's autocomplete a la bash style tab completion.

    

inoremap <tab> <c-n>

    While you're editing, if you want to enter a symbol that already exists in the file, type the first few characters and hit tab. If there's only one match, it gets autocompleted. If there are more, vim (at least version 7, maybe earlier versions) will display a drop-down with all potential autocomplete words. Use the tab or arrow keys to highlight your desired match, then keep typing.

    You might also want to change the color(s) of the drop down menu. This is handled with the following highlight group:

    

highlight Pmenu ctermfg=1 ctermbg=4 guibg=grey30

    You might also not want to use the tab key, because you're too busy indenting your code with tabs. If this is the case, please stop doing that.

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