Note: Active development on neocomplete.vim has stopped. The only future changes will be bug fixes.
Please see Deoplete.nvim.
neocomplete is the abbreviation of "neo-completion with cache". It provides keyword completion system by maintaining a cache of keywords in the current buffer. neocomplete can be customized easily and has many more features than Vim's built-in completion.
Note: If you use neovim or Vim8+, you should use deoplete instead. https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
Note: neocomplete requires Vim 7.3.885+ with Lua enabled. See requirements if you aren't sure whether you have this.
- Extract the files and put them in your Vim directory
(usually
~/.vim/
orProgram Files/Vim/vimfiles
on Windows). - Execute the
:NeoCompleteEnable
command or setlet g:neocomplete#enable_at_startup = 1
in your.vimrc
(not in.gvimrc
or_gvimrc
!)
neocomplete requires Vim 7.3.885+ compiled with
if_lua. If :echo has("lua")
returns 1
, then you're done; otherwise, see below.
Note: the Vim build may not include the Lua DLL. In that case,
download Lua and put the lua52.dll
file in the same directory as gvim.exe
.
Or, you can install MacVim with homebrew: (Make sure you have Xcode fully installed)
brew cask install macvim --with-cscope --with-lua
To install Vim (as opposed to MacVim) with homebrew:
brew install vim --with-luajit
Make sure you have any of these packages:
- vim-nox
- vim-gtk
- vim-gnome
- vim-athena
Which package depends on your graphical environment (except vim-nox which is for vim with no GUI).
The latest version of vim includes lua. As of 2014-04-16 you need to download the rpm.
Be aware, your distribution's package manager may have a fairly outdated
Vim build (for example, Ubuntu 12.04 ships Vim 7.3.429).
However, building Vim on Linux is not
difficult. Remember to specify --with-lua
(or --with-features=huge
).
In a cygwin environment, the Lua interface is supported by default.
If you want to make manually, you also need gcc and make.
When everything is prepared, execute these commands.
cd /usr/src
tar jxf vim-7.4.tar.bz2
tar xvfz lua-5.1.5.tar.gz
cd vim74/
./configure --enable-luainterp --enable-gui=no \
--without-x --enable-multibyte --prefix=/usr
make && make install
To check if everything was successfull enter the following vim --version
. You
should see +lua
in the list of features.
The Snippets feature of neocomplete was split into a separate plugin.
A migration guide for existing users of neocomplcache is available: Migration guide
Completion with vimshell
Vim completion (provided by neco-vim)
"Note: This option must be set in .vimrc(_vimrc). NOT IN .gvimrc(_gvimrc)!
" Disable AutoComplPop.
let g:acp_enableAtStartup = 0
" Use neocomplete.
let g:neocomplete#enable_at_startup = 1
" Use smartcase.
let g:neocomplete#enable_smart_case = 1
" Set minimum syntax keyword length.
let g:neocomplete#sources#syntax#min_keyword_length = 3
" Define dictionary.
let g:neocomplete#sources#dictionary#dictionaries = {
\ 'default' : '',
\ 'vimshell' : $HOME.'/.vimshell_hist',
\ 'scheme' : $HOME.'/.gosh_completions'
\ }
" Define keyword.
if !exists('g:neocomplete#keyword_patterns')
let g:neocomplete#keyword_patterns = {}
endif
let g:neocomplete#keyword_patterns['default'] = '\h\w*'
" Plugin key-mappings.
inoremap <expr><C-g> neocomplete#undo_completion()
inoremap <expr><C-l> neocomplete#complete_common_string()
" Recommended key-mappings.
" <CR>: close popup and save indent.
inoremap <silent> <CR> <C-r>=<SID>my_cr_function()<CR>
function! s:my_cr_function()
return (pumvisible() ? "\<C-y>" : "" ) . "\<CR>"
" For no inserting <CR> key.
"return pumvisible() ? "\<C-y>" : "\<CR>"
endfunction
" <TAB>: completion.
inoremap <expr><TAB> pumvisible() ? "\<C-n>" : "\<TAB>"
" <C-h>, <BS>: close popup and delete backword char.
inoremap <expr><C-h> neocomplete#smart_close_popup()."\<C-h>"
inoremap <expr><BS> neocomplete#smart_close_popup()."\<C-h>"
" Close popup by <Space>.
"inoremap <expr><Space> pumvisible() ? "\<C-y>" : "\<Space>"
" AutoComplPop like behavior.
"let g:neocomplete#enable_auto_select = 1
" Shell like behavior(not recommended).
"set completeopt+=longest
"let g:neocomplete#enable_auto_select = 1
"let g:neocomplete#disable_auto_complete = 1
"inoremap <expr><TAB> pumvisible() ? "\<Down>" : "\<C-x>\<C-u>"
" Enable omni completion.
autocmd FileType css setlocal omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
autocmd FileType html,markdown setlocal omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
autocmd FileType javascript setlocal omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
autocmd FileType python setlocal omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
autocmd FileType xml setlocal omnifunc=xmlcomplete#CompleteTags
" Enable heavy omni completion.
if !exists('g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns')
let g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns = {}
endif
"let g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns.php = '[^. \t]->\h\w*\|\h\w*::'
"let g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns.c = '[^.[:digit:] *\t]\%(\.\|->\)'
"let g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns.cpp = '[^.[:digit:] *\t]\%(\.\|->\)\|\h\w*::'
" For perlomni.vim setting.
" https://github.com/c9s/perlomni.vim
let g:neocomplete#sources#omni#input_patterns.perl = '\h\w*->\h\w*\|\h\w*::'