> If I hit the CTRL-P combo by accident .. "p" is very close to "[" ..
> and I use CTRL-[ a lot .. well, some "popup menu" materializes out of
> the blue .. presenting me with a list of "completion" choices ..
>
> Thanks, but I am not senile or otherwise mentally challenged .. I know
> what I want to type .. and most of the time vim does not .. and since I
> can type reasonably well .. I do _NOT_ need this completion "feature".
>
> Is there any way I can turn of this completion popup .. ?
:help compl-generic
In pre-Vim7 versions, control+P in insert-mode still had the same
behavior of doing completion of the next/previously found item.
It just didn't have the visual "popup" display of it. I use it
all the time and have since Vim6.0 so the visual display of
what's coming next/previous is merely a nice addition. According to
:help version5.txt
around line 815, this feature has been around since at least v5.
If you don't like it, there's no harm in doing something like
:inoremap <c-p> <esc>
which will allow your fingers to drift and accidentally hit
control+P and still get the behavior of hitting control+[
There's also an option to control the max number of lines in the
popup:
:help 'pumheight'
which might make it less annoying if you set it to 1-8 instead of
its default value of zero (which can overwhelm your screen). I
like about 8, but don't personally mind seeing all my options
most of the time.
Hope this gives you some options to work with...
-tim
