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Autocompletion and signature help plugin

  • Async (with customizable 'debounce' delay) 'two-stage chain completion': first builtin LSP, then configurable fallback.
  • Has functionality for completion item info and function signature (both in floating window appearing after customizable delay).

See more details in Features and help file.


⦿ This is a part of mini.nvim library. Please use this link if you want to mention this module.

⦿ All contributions (issues, pull requests, discussions, etc.) are done inside of 'mini.nvim'.

⦿ See the repository page to learn about common design principles and configuration recipes.


If you want to help this project grow but don't know where to start, check out contributing guides of 'mini.nvim' or leave a Github star for 'mini.nvim' project and/or any its standalone Git repositories.

Demo

demo-completion.mp4

Features

  • Two-stage chain completion:
    • First stage is an LSP completion. Supports additionalTextEdits, like auto-import and others.
    • If first stage is not set up or resulted into no candidates, fallback action is executed. The most tested actions are Neovim's built-in insert completion.
  • Automatic display in floating window of completion item info (via 'completionItem/resolve' request) and signature help (with highlighting of active parameter if LSP server provides such information).
  • Automatic actions are done after some configurable amount of delay. This reduces computational load and allows fast typing (completion and signature help) and item selection (item info)
  • User can force two-stage completion via or fallback completion.
  • Highlighting of LSP kind (like "Function", "Keyword", etc.). Requires enabled 'mini.icons' (uses its "lsp" category) and Neovim>=0.11.

Dependencies

For full experience needs (still works without any of suggestions):

  • Enabled 'mini.icons' module to highlight LSP kind (requires Neovim>=0.11). Otherwise MiniCompletion.default_process_items() does not add highlighting. Also take a look at MiniIcons.tweak_lsp_kind().

Installation

This plugin can be installed as part of 'mini.nvim' library (recommended) or as a standalone Git repository.

There are two branches to install from:

  • main (default, recommended) will have latest development version of plugin. All changes since last stable release should be perceived as being in beta testing phase (meaning they already passed alpha-testing and are moderately settled).
  • stable will be updated only upon releases with code tested during public beta-testing phase in main branch.

Here are code snippets for some common installation methods (use only one):

With mini.deps
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Follow recommended 'mini.deps' installation
Stable
Standalone plugin Main add('echasnovski/mini.completion')
Stable add({ source = 'echasnovski/mini.completion', checkout = 'stable' })
With folke/lazy.nvim
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', version = '*' },
Standalone plugin Main { 'echasnovski/mini.completion', version = false },
Stable { 'echasnovski/mini.completion', version = '*' },
With junegunn/vim-plug
Github repo Branch Code snippet
'mini.nvim' library Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.nvim', { 'branch': 'stable' }
Standalone plugin Main Plug 'echasnovski/mini.completion'
Stable Plug 'echasnovski/mini.completion', { 'branch': 'stable' }

Important: don't forget to call require('mini.completion').setup() to enable its functionality.

Note: if you are on Windows, there might be problems with too long file paths (like error: unable to create file <some file name>: Filename too long). Try doing one of the following:

  • Enable corresponding git global config value: git config --system core.longpaths true. Then try to reinstall.
  • Install plugin in other place with shorter path.

Default config

-- No need to copy this inside `setup()`. Will be used automatically.
{
  -- Delay (debounce type, in ms) between certain Neovim event and action.
  -- This can be used to (virtually) disable certain automatic actions by
  -- setting very high delay time (like 10^7).
  delay = { completion = 100, info = 100, signature = 50 },

  -- Configuration for action windows:
  -- - `height` and `width` are maximum dimensions.
  -- - `border` defines border (as in `nvim_open_win()`).
  window = {
    info = { height = 25, width = 80, border = 'none' },
    signature = { height = 25, width = 80, border = 'none' },
  },

  -- Way of how module does LSP completion
  lsp_completion = {
    -- `source_func` should be one of 'completefunc' or 'omnifunc'.
    source_func = 'completefunc',

    -- `auto_setup` should be boolean indicating if LSP completion is set up
    -- on every `BufEnter` event.
    auto_setup = true,

    -- A function which takes LSP 'textDocument/completion' response items
    -- and word to complete. Output should be a table of the same nature as
    -- input items. Common use case is custom filter/sort.
    process_items = --<function: MiniCompletion.default_process_items>,
  },

  -- Fallback action. It will always be run in Insert mode. To use Neovim's
  -- built-in completion (see `:h ins-completion`), supply its mapping as
  -- string. Example: to use 'whole lines' completion, supply '<C-x><C-l>'.
  fallback_action = --<function: like `<C-n>` completion>,

  -- Module mappings. Use `''` (empty string) to disable one. Some of them
  -- might conflict with system mappings.
  mappings = {
    force_twostep = '<C-Space>', -- Force two-step completion
    force_fallback = '<A-Space>', -- Force fallback completion
  },

  -- Whether to set Vim's settings for better experience (modifies
  -- `shortmess` and `completeopt`)
  set_vim_settings = true,
}

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