[Watabou]

I made a plugin [1] similar to this which offers more options when you press the Tab key. For instance, if you're typing a file path, you get Ctrl-X Ctrl-f completion (vim's file path completion) instead of the regular keyword completion. And if you type a period (configurable) and press Tab in filetypes like C, Python, Ruby, etc, you get omni completion (vim's semi-intelligent completion, which offers methods on classes, looks in ctags files, etc).

The great thing is that I was able to do this in less than 100 lines of code, and I love using it myself every day at work. Just goes to show that Vim has a pretty good completion system already and you don't need to use some bloated plugin system like YouCompleteMe or Neocomplete.

[1]: https://github.com/ajh17/VimCompletesMe

[muppetman]

There's also mu-complete[1] which is much like VimCompletes me - small and lightweight using only vim's built-in functionality. Doesn't work very well with vim < 7.3

(I haven't actually checked yours out, but I assume they're very similar in what they offer)

[1]: https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-mucomplete

[azinman2]

What's wrong with these others? I'm reacting to the word "bloat," which is frequently thrown around on HN. To me, generally bloat is probably a good thing, as it means additional functionality and nice-ites.