nvim-compe

Auto completion plugin for nvim.

Table Of Contents

• Concept
• Features
• Usage
  • Prerequisite
    • Vim script Config
    • Lua Config
  • Mappings
  • Highlight
• Built-in sources
  • Common
  • Neovim-specific
  • External-plugin
• External sources
• FAQ
  • Can't get sorting to work correctly
  • How to use LSP snippet?
  • How to use tab to navigate completion menu?
  • How to expand snippets from completion menu?
• Demo
  • Auto Import
  • LSP + Magic Completion
  • Buffer Source Completion
  • Calc Completion
  • Nvim Lua Completion
  • Vsnip Completion
  • Snippets.nvim Completion
  • Treesitter Completion
  • Tag Completion
  • Spell Completion

Concept

• Simple core
• No flicker
• Lua source & Vim source
• Better matching algorithm
• Support LSP completion features (trigger character, isIncomplete, expansion)
• Respect VSCode/LSP API design

Features

• VSCode compatible expansion handling
  • rust-analyzer's Magic completion
  • vscode-html-languageserver-bin's closing tag completion
  • Other complex expansion are supported
• Flexible Custom Source API
  • The source can support documentation / resolve / confirm
• Better fuzzy matching algorithm
  • gu can be matched get_user
  • fmodify can be matched fnamemodify
  • See matcher.lua for implementation details
• Buffer source carefully crafted
  • The buffer source will index buffer words by filetype specific regular expression if needed

Usage

Detailed docs in here or :help compe.

Prerequisite

You must set completeopt to menuone,noselect which can be easily done as follows.

Using Vim script

set completeopt=menuone,noselect

Using Lua

vim.o.completeopt = "menuone,noselect"

The source option is required if you want to enable but others can be omitted.

Vim script Config

let g:compe = {}
let g:compe.enabled = v:true
let g:compe.autocomplete = v:true
let g:compe.debug = v:false
let g:compe.min_length = 1
let g:compe.preselect = 'enable'
let g:compe.throttle_time = 80
let g:compe.source_timeout = 200
let g:compe.incomplete_delay = 400
let g:compe.max_abbr_width = 100
let g:compe.max_kind_width = 100
let g:compe.max_menu_width = 100
let g:compe.documentation = v:true

let g:compe.source = {}
let g:compe.source.path = v:true
let g:compe.source.buffer = v:true
let g:compe.source.calc = v:true
let g:compe.source.nvim_lsp = v:true
let g:compe.source.nvim_lua = v:true
let g:compe.source.vsnip = v:true

Lua Config

require'compe'.setup {
  enabled = true;
  autocomplete = true;
  debug = false;
  min_length = 1;
  preselect = 'enable';
  throttle_time = 80;
  source_timeout = 200;
  incomplete_delay = 400;
  max_abbr_width = 100;
  max_kind_width = 100;
  max_menu_width = 100;
  documentation = true;

  source = {
    path = true;
    buffer = true;
    calc = true;
    nvim_lsp = true;
    nvim_lua = true;
    vsnip = true;
  };
}

Mappings

inoremap <silent><expr> <C-Space> compe#complete()
inoremap <silent><expr> <CR>      compe#confirm('<CR>')
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-e>     compe#close('<C-e>')
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-f>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': +4 })
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-d>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': -4 })

If you use cohama/lexima.vim

" NOTE: Order is important. You can't lazy loading lexima.vim.
let g:lexima_no_default_rules = v:true
call lexima#set_default_rules()
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-Space> compe#complete()
inoremap <silent><expr> <CR>      compe#confirm(lexima#expand('<LT>CR>', 'i'))
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-e>     compe#close('<C-e>')
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-f>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': +4 })
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-d>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': -4 })

If you use Raimondi/delimitMate

inoremap <silent><expr> <C-Space> compe#complete()
inoremap <silent><expr> <CR>      compe#confirm({ 'keys': "\<Plug>delimitMateCR", 'mode': '' })
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-e>     compe#close('<C-e>')
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-f>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': +4 })
inoremap <silent><expr> <C-d>     compe#scroll({ 'delta': -4 })

Highlight

You can change documentation window's highlight group via following.

highlight link CompeDocumentation NormalFloat

Built-in sources

Common

• buffer
• path
• tags
• spell
• calc
• omni (Warning: It has a lot of side-effect.)

Neovim-specific

• nvim_lsp
• nvim_lua

External-plugin

• vim_lsp
• vim_lsc
• vim-vsnip
• ultisnips
• snippets.nvim
• nvim-treesitter

External sources

• tabnine
• zsh
• conjure
• dadbod

FAQ

Can't get it work.

If you are enabling the omni source, please try to disable it.

How to remove Pattern not found?

You can set set shortmess+=c in your vimrc.

How to use LSP snippet?

1. Set snippetSupport=true for LSP capabilities.

   local capabilities = vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities()
   capabilities.textDocument.completion.completionItem.snippetSupport = true
   
   require'lspconfig'.rust_analyzer.setup {
     capabilities = capabilities,
   }
   

2. Install vim-vsnip

   Plug 'hrsh7th/vim-vsnip'
   

   or snippets.nvim

   Plug 'norcalli/snippets.nvim'
   

How to use tab to navigate completion menu?

Tab and S-Tab keys need to be mapped to <C-n> and <C-p> when completion menu is visible. Following example will use Tab and S-Tab (shift+tab) to navigate completion menu and jump between vim-vsnip placeholders when possible:

local t = function(str)
  return vim.api.nvim_replace_termcodes(str, true, true, true)
end

local check_back_space = function()
    local col = vim.fn.col('.') - 1
    if col == 0 or vim.fn.getline('.'):sub(col, col):match('%s') then
        return true
    else
        return false
    end
end

-- Use (s-)tab to:
--- move to prev/next item in completion menuone
--- jump to prev/next snippet's placeholder
_G.tab_complete = function()
  if vim.fn.pumvisible() == 1 then
    return t "<C-n>"
  elseif vim.fn.call("vsnip#available", {1}) == 1 then
    return t "<Plug>(vsnip-expand-or-jump)"
  elseif check_back_space() then
    return t "<Tab>"
  else
    return vim.fn['compe#complete']()
  end
end
_G.s_tab_complete = function()
  if vim.fn.pumvisible() == 1 then
    return t "<C-p>"
  elseif vim.fn.call("vsnip#jumpable", {-1}) == 1 then
    return t "<Plug>(vsnip-jump-prev)"
  else
    return t "<S-Tab>"
  end
end

vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("i", "<Tab>", "v:lua.tab_complete()", {expr = true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("s", "<Tab>", "v:lua.tab_complete()", {expr = true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("i", "<S-Tab>", "v:lua.s_tab_complete()", {expr = true})
vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("s", "<S-Tab>", "v:lua.s_tab_complete()", {expr = true})

How to expand snippets from completion menu?

Use compe#confirm() mapping, as described in section Mappings.

Demo

Auto Import

LSP + rust_analyzer's Magic Completion

Buffer Source Completion

Calc Completion

Nvim Lua Completion

Vsnip Completion

Snippets.nvim Completion

Treesitter Completion

Tag Completion

Spell Completion