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Asked: 2026-05-11T04:05:23+00:00

I want Vim ‘s completion menu to work more like the one in Visual

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I want Vim‘s completion menu to work more like the one in Visual Studio. I want to be able to write the start of a variable (or something which completion is available), hit the omni-completion keys and get the completion menu. Now I want the completion menu to highlight the best match but not add it to the buffer. Now I want to be able to either hit ENTER to input the selected element or enter more letters to filter the completion menu even more (possibly highlighting a new item in the completion menu) and then hit enter to insert.

The wiki page/tips at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Make_Vim_completion_popup_menu_work_just_like_in_an_IDE is supposed to do this but I can’t get it to work. Has someone else tried the code from that tip and made it work as I describe?

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  1. The referenced wiki page contained broken mappings. A user (Spiiph) changed the Vim code to something that looked better to him, but was not right. I reversed the changes he made and now the inoremap statements should work.

    To avoid confusion these are IMHO the right commands:

    inoremap <expr> <c-n> pumvisible() ? '\<lt>c-n>' : '\<lt>c-n>\<lt>c-r>=pumvisible() ? \'\\<lt>down>\' : \'\'\<lt>cr>' inoremap <expr> <m-;> pumvisible() ? '\<lt>c-n>' : '\<lt>c-x>\<lt>c-o>\<lt>c-n>\<lt>c-p>\<lt>c-r>=pumvisible() ? \'\\<lt>down>\' : \'\'\<lt>cr>'

    PS: When it comes to using Vim’s completion feature I found the SuperTab script very convenient. Maybe this script is also interesting for you in this context…

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