Reputation: 10131

Vim code completion

Is it possible to make Vim complete the code for you, like in any other IDE (not just word searching, but members of classes, methods etc.)?

What are the best options / plugins available?

Upvotes: 10

Answers (7)

user427390

Reputation:

This is a little out dated. A rising star in Vim code completion is the "YouCompleteMe" plugin. Check it out here.

Upvotes: 7

SergioAraujo

Reputation: 11790

I believe that following this list of links you will be able to leave any IDE and become a faithful user of vim, see some plugins that help you with IDE resources...

snipMate plugin faster code complete skels
video showing snipmate on vimeo
article about sparkup html codding to understand this resource
video showing sparkup html complete to see this in action
Auto complete popup plugin here
Advanced undo resource
some interesting videos on advanced usage of vim on vimeo
more free videos at vimcasts.org
amazing article about vim in this link
vim for php programmers (useful not only for php programmers) here

Upvotes: 11

Alan Christopher Thomas

Reputation: 4550

Omni completion is definitely the way to go. Instantiate it in insert mode with Ctrl+X Ctrl+O.

I use it in conjunction with SuperTab as well to allow for tab completion similar to bash shell.

Upvotes: 6

Cam

Reputation: 709

Clang Complete lets you use Clang for accurate auto-completion of C and C++

Upvotes: 12

Gohan

Reputation: 2460

You can try this out Dictionary completions, get dictionary for you language. Simple ways

if you are programming in c++, there are ctag and cscope and with OmniCppComplete plugin.

Hope it will help

Upvotes: 2

Loki Astari

Reputation: 264331

Don't use it myself but I have heard of Omni complete:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Omni_completion

The Vim Wiki contains a couple of things that may be of use for auto completion of words.

Upvotes: 3

Arafangion

Reputation: 11906

It's possible, but most people don't.

vim is a fairly generic editor, that said, it does contain some "code completion" features such as word completion, etcetera, but nothing like the likes of, say, Delphi's IDE.

Such a system could be added by scripting vim - vim can directly run several scripting languages that make this easy, or you could send the file through an external script.

Upvotes: -6

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