[krichman]

Is there a way to dismiss it without using the autocomplete?

[syncontrol]

ESC will do it. But you shouldn't really need to. You just continue typing and the menu goes away and pops back as needed. It does its best to be unobtrusive.

[krichman]

I was worried about interaction with Snipmate :) that's probably been accounted for, though. I'm really looking forward to trying this out.

[syncontrol]

If your going to use Snipmate, you may want to remap the completion selection key from TAB to something else (if you want to use TAB for Snipmate). See the docs for details.