is there an autocomplete feature for vi. ctrl p looks for keywords already used in the document. but suppose i want a.funcname to automatically show members of object a. is it possible with vi.
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Maybe this article will help, I haven't tried it to be honest but it looks suitable.
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Take a look at supertab: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script%5Fid=1643
wishi
2009-11-05 13:02:25
trying supertab
iamrohitbanga
2009-11-05 13:22:35
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I realise this isn't quite answering your question, but have you looked at running vi within an IDE ?
viPlugin works with Eclipse and is a pretty good vi emulation. Since it runs within Eclipse you get all the code completion that Eclipse provides. Eclipse isn't just for Java, btw. It works with a variety of languages and may well cater for what you need.
This is the direction I took when I reluctantly realised that vi by itself wasn't providing as much help as I needed when developing, but I was reluctant to give up the power of the editor.
Brian Agnew
2009-11-05 13:10:58
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I use NetBeans with the jVi plugin. It gives me the editing power of vi with the intelligent auto-completion features of NetBeans.
postfuturist
2009-11-05 13:11:33
netbeans and eclipse are powerful editors themselves. why do you need vi plugins in them.
iamrohitbanga
2009-11-05 13:22:04
Honestly, its a different type of power. IDE's have powerful capabilities, like scanning a project and providing intelligent auto-completion, syntax highlighting, etc. Vi-style editing provides power at a low-level, pure text editing way. With the jVi plugin, you lose none of the underlying power of the IDE, so you get the best of both worlds. It's a win-win. Vi/vim is still *very* popular: http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/2150554/
postfuturist
2009-11-05 16:48:56
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It depends on your language. For c++, for example, there is omnicppcomplete.
Andy
2009-11-07 11:08:33
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I’ve already asked this and although there are some promising answers, the overall prospect is bleak. I haven’t had time to look into all of the possible ways in detail but for the moment my summary is thus:
- There are different plugins available (see above and in other answers)
- But none is the “killer” product
- All require a lot of effort to get working
- Most are unstable or achieve unsatisfactory results
- IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio) still have a surprisingly big advantage over Vim here, although the latter has been around much longer and could in principle deliver the same experience.
All in all, highly disappointing.
Konrad Rudolph
2009-11-07 11:14:18