On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:45:15 +0200, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk / gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/24/05, Mando Escamilla <mando.escamilla / gmail.com> wrote: >> That's what I use. With vim's ability to split windows horizontally and >> vertically (and open different buffers in each) and keyword completion, >> along with the nice minibuffer explorer plugin on >> vim.sourceforge.net<http://vim.sourceforge.net>, >> it's about as close to the perfect IDE that a vi user could ask for. > > How does the keyword completion in vim work? Check out :help completion: Completion can be done for: 1. Whole lines |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-L| 2. keywords in the current file |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-N| 3. keywords in 'dictionary' |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-K| 4. keywords in 'thesaurus', thesaurus-style |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-T| 5. keywords in the current and included files |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-I| 6. tags |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-]| 7. file names |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-F| 8. definitions or macros |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-D| 9. Vim command-line |i_CTRL-X_CTRL-V| 10. keywords in 'complete' |i_CTRL-N| But I don't like the CTRL-X_CTRL-* key combinations, so I use SuperTab: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=182 From this website: description Use your tab key to do all your completion in insert mode! The script remembers the last completion type, and applies that. Eg.: You want to enter /usr/local/lib/povray3/ You type (in insert mode): /u<C-x><C-f>/l<Tab><Tab><Tab>/p<Tab>/i<Tab> You can also manipulate the completion type used by changing g:complType variable. I mainly use it in mode 2. It works great for ruby. Dominik