Omni completion popup menu

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created January 23, 2007 · complexity basic · author RedBeard0531 · version 7

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The omni complete feature in Vim is great. Here are some suggestions for working with the popup completion menu.

Setting the color

Try the following command to improve the color of the popup menu (add to your vimrc if you always want this choice):

:highlight Pmenu guibg=brown gui=bold

In console Vim, you might want a command like this:

:highlight Pmenu ctermbg=238 gui=bold

To see how different color schemes look, try (see view all colors):

:runtime syntax/colortest.vim

Better still would be to use a color scheme that is designed with the completion menu in mind. For example, marklar.vim Dark colorscheme based on green chalkboard.

Using SuperTab

The SuperTab plugin can be used to avoid needing to press Ctrl-X then Ctrl-O to invoke the popup completion menu. With SuperTab installed, the following setting means you can just press Tab instead.

let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = "<C-X><C-O>"

You may also try the context value, which lets SuperTab decide which completion mode to use and should play well with OmniCompletion:

let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = "context"

References

• :help :highlight