Completion

When in Insert mode, you can trigger completion for a word by using CTRL-P. This cycles forward through the list of matches -- CTRL-N goes backwards. The documentation for the complete (:help 'complete') has options for configuring the behaviour of these commands, and I also wrote about it in Vim 101…

This week I tried out Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a new editor from Microsoft that has features focused on web development. One of the cool things about it is it brings IntelliSense to JavaScript developers, and it’s cross platform as well — it supports Mac OS X, Linux, and…

EntryComplete by Ingo Karkat allows you to specify buffers that will be used for line completion (triggered by CTRL-X CTRL-L in Insert mode). This means you can use a file that contains a list of…

InnerFragmentComplete by Ingo Karkat is a plugin for expanding words based on partial matches:

CTRL-X i: Find matches for inner fragments. It…

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YouCompleteMe

YouCompleteMe (GitHub: Valloric / YouCompleteMe, License: GPL3) by Strahinja Val…

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Supertab

Supertab (GitHub: ervandew / supertab, License: BSD) by Eric Van Dewoestine and created by Gergely Kontra is a plugin…

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dragee.vim

dragee.vim by “emma-dev” is a Vim distribution that aims to improve the default settings, and make it easier to…

seeks.vim (GitHub: sanpii / seeks.vim) by Sanpi is an interface to the Seeks.fr search engine that can display results using a window inside Vim. It’s built using the webapi-vim project, which supports lots of interesting…

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vim-pipe

vim-pipe (GitHub: krisajenkins / vim-pipe) by Kris Jenkins helps improve workflow by allowing a buffer to…