I would also love a flicker-less popup menu. I use the completion
excessively, since I've found it makes coding faster and less error
prone. I noticed the menu only flickers in some cases.
--Matt
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:10:09AM +1100, Peter Hodge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I agree, it would be great if the popup-menu could be optimized. One of the
> best features of Vim is that is fast enough to keep up with my keystrokes
> (many
> editors will begin to 'lag' when given commands too rapidly, and I have to
> stop
> and wait for them). I often have to slacken my pace when it comes to Vim's
> popup-menu, because it takes at least .2 seconds to redraw each time I press
> CTRL-N.
>
> regards,
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Nikolai Weibull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > As you've probably all noticed the completion menu flickers when you
> > move through the items rapidly. Why is this? Is it really necessary
> > to redraw the whole completion menu when it really only should require
> > redrawing the item previously selected and the item selected now [1]?
> >
> > Anyway, would this be possible to implement?
> >
> > Also, here's a set of mappings that make the digits move their value
> > number of items down the completion list (if displayed):
> >
> > for digit in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9]
> > execute 'inoremap <silent> ' . digit . ' <C-R>=pumvisible() ? "' .
> > repeat('\<lt>C-N>', digit) . '" : "' . digit . '"<CR>'
> > endfor
> >
> > (I guess this could be extended to include -n, for 1 <= n <= 9, which
> > would move n number of items upward. Any takers?)
> >
> > It flickers like mad, but at least it goes a lot faster than holding
> > down CTRL-N or CTRL-P.
> >
> > nikolai
> >
> > [1] Excepting the case where one begins to scroll in the menu, when
> > all items need to be redrawn, as they move up or down one step - which
> > leads to a second question, wouldn't it be a lot more economical to
> > scroll like half a menu or something, so that scrolling wouldn't
> > require so many redraws? Or at least utilize the terminal codes that
> > enable scrolling in a buffer to be done with only redrawing the first
> > or last line when scrolling by a single line in a buffer?
> >
>
>
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