Question

I am trying to use snipMate and pydiction in vim together – however, both use the <tab> key to perform their genius-auto-completion-snippet-rendering-goodness-that-I-so-desire.

When pydiction is installed, snipMate stops working. I assume its because they can’t both own the <tab> key. How can I get them to work together?

I wouldn’t mind mapping one of them to a different key, but I am not really sure how to do this … (maybe pydiction to the <ctrl-n> key so it mimics vim’s autocomplete?).

Here is the relevant .vimrc:

filetype indent plugin on 

autocmd FileType python set ft=python.django 
autocmd FileType html set ft=html.django_template 

let g:pydiction_location = '~/.vim/ftplugin/pydiction-1.2/complete-dict'

Answer 1

Well, this is from the Snipmate help file 🙂

                                                              *snipMate-remap*
snipMate does not come with a setting to customize the trigger key, but you
can remap it easily in the two lines it's defined in the 'after' directory
under 'plugin/snipMate.vim'. For instance, to change the trigger key
to CTRL-J, just change this: >

 ino <tab> <c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>
 snor <tab> <esc>i<right><c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>

to this: >
 ino <c-j> <c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>
 snor <c-j> <esc>i<right><c-r>=TriggerSnippet()<cr>