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Reputation:

Auto-Completion in Unix VI editor

After using graphical IDE's like Visual Studio, I'm used to pressing CTRL+Space to auto-complete a variable or function name. Now, I know such a thing isn't completely possible in VI, but I heard there was a list of commands that could be mapped that allowed automatic completion of variables and functions in the current file opened. Does anyone know what this sequence is?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2006

Answers (1)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 181845

Just noticed that you said "vi"; I hope that "vim" is also okay.

It depends on the particular programming language, but in general, the magic word is Omnicomplete.

Put this into .vimrc:

filetype plugin on
set ofu=syntaxcomplete#Complete

Press Ctrl+N or Ctrl+P to trigger the completion. This is insanely customizable; you might like the tips here that make it work more like other IDEs.

Upvotes: 3

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