No completions for external package at first tries (integrated with ycmd)

[stamblerre]

No completions for external package at first tries (integrated with ycmd)

[stamblerre]

I'm not able to reproduce this when opening files, but if you are opening new Go files, perhaps you are encountering #3?

[magodo]

I'm not able to reproduce this when opening files, but if you are opening new Go files, perhaps you are encountering #3?

No, sometimes when the external package is big/complex, it seems will fail. I think it is caused by some different reason. I don't know how to get the error from vim/ycmd (even i added -debug option for gocode, the output from ycm seems have no help).

[stamblerre]

To get the debug output, you will have to start gocode manually.

$ gocode close
$ gocode -s -debug

Then you should be able to open up Vim and type normally, and the completion output will show up in terminal.

[maxbaird]

Where should the -source option be added for external package completion?

[stamblerre]

-source is necessary to type-check packages from source (rather than export data from a build), so it shouldn't be necessary for external packages to be completed. The -source flag should be provided on the client side, so you will have to configure it in your editor settings.

[stamblerre]

Closing this issue, as the current recommendation for autocompletion is to use gopls.