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Asked: 2026-06-17T04:23:10+00:00

I often rely on omni-completion to edit source codes, so my current .vimrc contains

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I often rely on omni-completion to edit source codes, so my current .vimrc contains following setting to gain quick access to intended candidates:

inoremap <C-f> <C-x><C-o>

Now I find there are many kinds of ins-completions except for omni-completion and become interested to use both tags and file names completions too. 

1. Whole lines                                          i_CTRL-X_CTRL-L
2. keywords in the current file                         i_CTRL-X_CTRL-N
3. keywords in 'dictionary'                             i_CTRL-X_CTRL-K
4. keywords in 'thesaurus', thesaurus-style             i_CTRL-X_CTRL-T
5. keywords in the current and included files           i_CTRL-X_CTRL-I
6. tags                                                 i_CTRL-X_CTRL-]
7. file names                                           i_CTRL-X_CTRL-F
8. definitions or macros                                i_CTRL-X_CTRL-D
9. Vim command-line                                     i_CTRL-X_CTRL-V
10. User defined completion                             i_CTRL-X_CTRL-U
11. omni completion                                     i_CTRL-X_CTRL-O
12. Spelling suggestions                                i_CTRL-X_s
13. keywords in 'complete'                              i_CTRL-N*emphasized text*

The question is, how can I list up whole candidates from these specific completion sources on a ins-complete-menu with single command, <C-f>.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the default completion (CTRL-N / CTRL-P); its completion sources can be configured via the 'complete' option. Unfortunately, from your list, only tags (not file names) can be (and is by default) included in there. (But don’t you know beforehand that you want file completion? I particularly like the many different completion commands because they narrow down the result list, which for me is far more valuable than not having to think about which completion to invoke.)

    If you really want an all-encompassing completion, you’d have to implement that yourself as a user-completion, and you’d have to re-implement all the built-in sources, as there currently is no way to programmatically get them.

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