In 2010 I started a project to bring such functionality to Vim. The project implements the function popuplist with the following interface:
let items = ['Item 1', 'Item 2', 'Item 3'] let opts = {'current': 1 } let rv = popuplist(items, 'Example', opts) if rv.status == 'accept' echo items[rv.current] endif The code is in my clone of Vim on branch vim-popuplist: https://github.com/mmahnic/vim/tree/vim-popuplist The core is in popuplst.c and various extensions are in puls_x files. The system is described in runtime/doc/popuplist.txt. The problem for the adoption in Vim is that it is written in "Object Oriented" C and has to go through a "precompiler" written in Python (mmoocc.py). There are various modes for filtering the list: fuzzy matching,regex matching and word matching. Expressions can also be highlighted without filtering. Here are some screenshots from the old Python version: http://vimuiex.sourceforge.net/screenshot/vxrecentfile.png.html. The C version looks similar. There are also some known bugs that would have to be fixed, but I haven't had the time to do it in the last few years although I use it daily through the vimuiex library. It can run processes (like grep) in the background so the list of items is growing while the user already explores it; this functionality should be modified to use channels. If there is interest the code could probably be used as a start. On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 7:47:01 PM UTC+1, Tom Link wrote: > Add support for QuickPick similar to VsCode and SublimeText - > https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/vscode-api#QuickPick > > This is basically what ctrlp.vim/fzf/fzy/vim-fz does but better. As a plugin > author it is very difficult to support all these plugins to get fuzzy search. > sometime I don't even use those and it becomes a maintenance headache for me > to support it. I would like to see vim provide one of those UI so as a plugin > author I only need to support one of them. Similar to how we have loclist and > quickfix list. Ship it by default so I don't need to tell users to install > more plugins to get fuzzy picker working. > > Problems with current fuzzy search. > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.