Async autocompletion for Vim 8 and Neovim with |timers|.
This is inspired by nvim-complete-manager but written in pure Vim Script.
Plug 'prabirshrestha/asyncomplete.vim'
inoremap <expr> <Tab> pumvisible() ? "\<C-n>" : "\<Tab>"
inoremap <expr> <S-Tab> pumvisible() ? "\<C-p>" : "\<S-Tab>"
inoremap <expr> <cr> pumvisible() ? asyncomplete#close_popup() : "\<cr>"
If you prefer the enter key to always insert a new line (even if the popup menu is visible) then you can amend the above mapping as follows:
inoremap <expr> <cr> pumvisible() ? asyncomplete#close_popup() . "\<cr>" : "\<cr>"
imap <c-space> <Plug>(asyncomplete_force_refresh)
" For Vim 8 (<c-@> corresponds to <c-space>):
" imap <c-@> <Plug>(asyncomplete_force_refresh)
By default asyncomplete will automatically show the autocomplete popup menu as you start typing.
If you would like to disable the default behavior set g:asyncomplete_auto_popup
to 0.
let g:asyncomplete_auto_popup = 0
You can use the above <Plug>(asyncomplete_force_refresh)
to show the popup
or you can tab to show the autocomplete.
let g:asyncomplete_auto_popup = 0
function! s:check_back_space() abort
let col = col('.') - 1
return !col || getline('.')[col - 1] =~ '\s'
endfunction
inoremap <silent><expr> <TAB>
\ pumvisible() ? "\<C-n>" :
\ <SID>check_back_space() ? "\<TAB>" :
\ asyncomplete#force_refresh()
inoremap <expr><S-TAB> pumvisible() ? "\<C-p>" : "\<C-h>"
To enable preview window:
" allow modifying the completeopt variable, or it will
" be overridden all the time
let g:asyncomplete_auto_completeopt = 0
set completeopt=menuone,noinsert,noselect,preview
To auto close preview window when completion is done.
autocmd! CompleteDone * if pumvisible() == 0 | pclose | endif
asyncomplete.vim deliberately does not contain any sources. Please use one of the following sources or create your own.
Language Server Protocol via vim-lsp and asyncomplete-lsp.vim
Please note that vim-lsp setup for neovim requires neovim v0.2.0 or higher, since it uses lambda setup.
Plug 'prabirshrestha/asyncomplete.vim'
Plug 'prabirshrestha/vim-lsp'
Plug 'prabirshrestha/asyncomplete-lsp.vim'
if executable('pyls')
" pip install python-language-server
au User lsp_setup call lsp#register_server({
\ 'name': 'pyls',
\ 'cmd': {server_info->['pyls']},
\ 'allowlist': ['python'],
\ })
endif
Refer to vim-lsp wiki for configuring other language servers. Besides auto-complete language server support other features such as go to definition, find references, renaming symbols, document symbols, find workspace symbols, formatting and so on.
in alphabetical order
Languages/FileType/Source | Links |
---|---|
Ale | asyncomplete-ale.vim |
Buffer | asyncomplete-buffer.vim |
C/C | asyncomplete-clang.vim |
Clojure | async-clj-omni |
Common Lisp (vlime) | vlime |
Dictionary (look) | asyncomplete-look |
Emmet | asyncomplete-emmet.vim |
English | asyncomplete-nextword.vim |
Emoji | asyncomplete-emoji.vim |
Filenames / directories | asyncomplete-file.vim |
NeoInclude | asyncomplete-neoinclude.vim |
Go | asyncomplete-gocode.vim |
Git commit message | asyncomplete-gitcommit |
JavaScript (Flow) | asyncomplete-flow.vim |
Neosnippet | asyncomplete-neosnippet.vim |
Omni | asyncomplete-omni.vim |
PivotalTracker stories | asyncomplete-pivotaltracker.vim |
Rust (racer) | asyncomplete-racer.vim |
TabNine powered by AI | asyncomplete-tabnine.vim |
tmux complete | tmux-complete.vim |
Typescript | asyncomplete-tscompletejob.vim |
UltiSnips | asyncomplete-ultisnips.vim |
User (compl-function) | asyncomplete-user.vim |
Vim Syntax | asyncomplete-necosyntax.vim |
Vim tags | asyncomplete-tags.vim |
Vim | asyncomplete-necovim.vim |
can't find what you are looking for? write one instead an send a PR to be included here or search github topics tagged with asyncomplete at https://github.com/topics/asyncomplete.
Rather than writing your own completion source from scratch you could also suggests other plugin authors to provide a async completion api that works for asyncomplete.vim or any other async autocomplete libraries without taking a dependency on asyncomplete.vim. The plugin can provide a function that takes a callback which returns the list of candidates and the startcol from where it must show the popup. Candidates can be list of words or vim's complete-items
.
function s:completor(opt, ctx)
call mylanguage#get_async_completions({candidates, startcol -> asyncomplete#complete(a:opt['name'], a:ctx, startcol, candidates) })
endfunction
au User asyncomplete_setup call asyncomplete#register_source({
\ 'name': 'mylanguage',
\ 'allowlist': ['*'],
\ 'completor': function('s:completor'),
\ })
function! s:js_completor(opt, ctx) abort
let l:col = a:ctx['col']
let l:typed = a:ctx['typed']
let l:kw = matchstr(l:typed, '\v\S $')
let l:kwlen = len(l:kw)
let l:startcol = l:col - l:kwlen
let l:matches = [
\ "do", "if", "in", "for", "let", "new", "try", "var", "case", "else", "enum", "eval", "null", "this", "true",
\ "void", "with", "await", "break", "catch", "class", "const", "false", "super", "throw", "while", "yield",
\ "delete", "export", "import", "public", "return", "static", "switch", "typeof", "default", "extends",
\ "finally", "package", "private", "continue", "debugger", "function", "arguments", "interface", "protected",
\ "implements", "instanceof"
\ ]
call asyncomplete#complete(a:opt['name'], a:ctx, l:startcol, l:matches)
endfunction
au User asyncomplete_setup call asyncomplete#register_source({
\ 'name': 'javascript',
\ 'allowlist': ['javascript'],
\ 'completor': function('s:js_completor'),
\ })
The above sample shows synchronous completion. If you would like to make it async just call asyncomplete#complete
whenever you have the results ready.
call timer_start(2000, {timer-> asyncomplete#complete(a:opt['name'], a:ctx, l:startcol, l:matches)})
If you are returning incomplete results and would like to trigger completion on the next keypress pass 1
as the fifth parameter to asyncomplete#complete
which signifies the result is incomplete.
call asyncomplete#complete(a:opt['name'], a:ctx, l:startcol, l:matches, 1)
As a source author you do not have to worry about synchronization issues in case the server returns the async completion after the user has typed more
characters. asyncomplete.vim uses partial caching as well as ignores if the context changes when calling asyncomplete#complete
.
This is one of the core reason why the original context must be passed when calling asyncomplete#complete
.
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