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by edanm 4876 days ago
Haven't had a chance to try this yet, but I can definitely say that this was a serious sore spot for vim. AutoComplPop is great (and is what I use), but it lacks Fuzzy Search which is very important to me. I tried installing NeoComplCache, but even after spending a lot of time on it, couldn't get it working properly - plus, it slowed down vim, by a LOT. I'm talking, opening a buffer took a visible amount of time.

If this plugin works as well as advertised, I'll be extremely happy.

2 comments

Want to hear a secret from an emacs user?

It's almost just as bad over here. I've got maybe 20 lines to try and get this working in my .emacsrc. It's like layers of fossils; first I have a few commented lines fighting through the hippie-expand era, then a few more from the CEDET age, and gobs and gobs of elisp to try and cobble together auto-complete into completion, but even now it doesn't always work right for most of my languages. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.

One thing that does work excellently is ido for opening files. If you're a vim developer, you should really rip off ido.

I second that, NeoComplCache is just too slow, I had issues where it simply hung vim for 2-3 seconds every time I tried to complete something, completely negating any speedup I might get from completing.