TakeTuesday E01: nvim-cmp

[@teej_dv]

Comment below with other plugins you'd like to see in this series or with any other feedback you have! Thanks for watching :)

[@noblesavage149]

Have you tried Olical/aniseed? Thoughts?

[@teej_dv]

@@noblesavage149 for some reason, it seems like yt keeps making my comments disappear. So sorry if you see three of them haha. But I have not tried it. I also don't know lisp, so I don't think I would be the right person to explore it.

[@noblesavage149]

@@teej_dv That's ok, my one seems to have disappeared also. I think yt is going down the proverbials at the moment!

[@jmann277]

nvim-dap pleeeease

[@danymat]

Neogen (it’s an annotation generator using treesitter) And Neorg

[@BryanBaron55]

Nvim surprised me every single day, I can tell that I'm not an expert, (I'm learning how to setup Nvim for myself yet, btw) but things like this inspire me to go on with this beautiful code editor... Great video and job TJ, you're the best.

[@teej_dv]

What a really nice message! Thanks! I'm hoping to make a bunch more of these (over time haha, they take quite awhile)

[@korney4eg]

Hey TJ. It's super nice idea for videos to take one plugin/component and become familiar with it.

[@teej_dv]

Glad to hear it! Glad you found it useful!

[@andrewhaeffner6114]

Absolutely amazing video. Entertaining, informative and really well laid out. This content is the bomb! Becoming exposed to the features of nvim by you & the rest of the community is greatly broadening my horizons with respect to developing software. I am greatly appreciative of the effort that you put into this video and your other content. You’re the man, TJ!

[@teej_dv]

Thank you so much :)

[@diarmaidmac2149]

What a great idea TJ! This is the sort of trials and tribulations that us mere mortals go through so it is nice to see it from the eye of an experienced "insider" 😀👍

[@teej_dv]

Glad to hear it!

[@EuphoricRaccoon]

Dude, seriously thank you for this video. I love how you go step by step explaining parts of the basic setup and configuration for the plugin (instead of simply copy this, paste that). My migration from completion-nvim to this one was long overdue and this video was just perfect, worked like a charm! Your "explain one plugin, install, setup, config and features" videos are great!

[@teej_dv]

So happy to hear :) I've got another one almost done!

[@mantassidabras2921]

That's exactly what I need! How a proficient vim user setups his config and uses real world scenarios. And also kudos for warning about tab selection!

[@devonduty]

Hey TJ, thanks for this great video, I really like the format! Best regards, David

[@maniac5411]

THESE VIDEOS ARE AMAZING, PLEASE NEVER STOP THEM! Huge thanks to you Tj, I was so lost in regards to completion in neovim and this cleared up everything for me!

[@chrisjames278]

Awesome video. Looking forward to the future TakeTuesdays! Will be looking forward to the luasnip one. Thanks TJ.

[@tamatotodile]

2 years later, this video still helping lost souls like me. Thanks teej :D

[@teej_dv]

haha that's awesome!

[@Boroujerdi]

nvim-dap. Never tried debugging in a text editor. It is the one thing preventing me from completely switching to nvim

[@barower]

This

[@teej_dv]

@@barower It's on the list :) A few plugins away but I will go over this plugin in the series hopefully

[@WiseGuyFTW]

This is such a useful video, no other video gives an intro to get things started and a background to what different sources do. Thanks!

[@Amapramaadhy]

Seriously face melting stuff. Really enjoyed the format. Chock full of actionable items. Thanks TJ.

[@teej_dv]

Awesome! :) I will try to keep to that standard!

[@chandrappamenasinahal7785]

Very very thanks for all the efforts that you guys are putting make such valuable content, from which nvim users like me getting lots of benfits... Thanks you very much.. This is my first comment i am writing in youtube for any of channel.

[@teej_dv]

Wow! That's very kind of you! So glad you enjoyed it!

[@SaMusz73]

Great tutorial in the 'insides' of neovim. Learned a lot. Please keep up the format as is, not too long and not just out of the help docs

[@hendrykhoza4782]

Thank you. waiting for the lua snippets video

[@imaksimus]

Decided to watch this spontaneously. Just as good as the first time. Really miss TakeTuesday.

[@someoneyouveneverheardof]

I would say these videos are useful and fun to watch. I would watch them even if I knew most of the stuff, becoz there's always something I don't know. And you guys are the experts and I always enjoy going more deep which you did in this video. I hope videos like these keep coming! :)

[@stev0rev0]

Thanks so much for this, TJ - I learned a ton! A co-worker convinced me to watch this and make the switch from coc and it definitely worked. So happy with the result. Looking forward to more.

[@user-fq2ty]

what I did in mappings was change for and for . So basically I can scroll words without move fingers almost, and to prevent tab use. ( and for Dvorak users)

[@Pau1danelli]

This was amazing thank you. I’d love to see you go through your LSP setup, explaining what you do and why. I’m new to lua, so seeing someone explain what is happening makes it way simpler than code diving dot files.

[@teej_dv]

A builtin LSP video would probably be also be good for a simple setup of some of the features. Thanks for the idea!

[@phantomwhale]

Just found these - great stuff! My complete wasn't working, turned out to be something unrelated of course, but getting a solid run through of what SHOULD be there and how it hands together really gave me a bunch of confidence with my autocomplete setup; so when it does flake out, I know it's something else I stuffed up in future (hopefully!)

[@pigozs]

Thank you! I've been using coc for a long time. This video and the one about LSP helped me so much in setting everything up.

[@willernst]

Sooo good. I love the well-paced and comprehensive walk-through.

[@teej_dv]

Glad the pacing was helpful. It's hard to find the right pace but not take 4 hours haha

[@lucastperez]

The GH Issues thing was very impressive! Really nice video :D

[@teej_dv]

Excellent!

[@lpanebr]

I really enjoyed this format and the content is excellent! I'll just ditch my prime's yt subscription and follow you now! 😂😂

[@teej_dv]

Don't leave Prime. He's the reason I stream!

[@elyezer]

What an excellent video and series. Thanks for putting all the effort and coming with this greatly explained video. After this I am considering giving nvim-cmp a try for sure.

[@teej_dv]

ELYEZER YOU HAVE TO BE ON NVIM CMP OR YOU ARE GETTING BANNED FROM TWITCH KAPPA

[@pawebakiewicz6786]

I loved this format TJ. Looking forward for more :D

[@teej_dv]

Thanks, had a bunch of stuff happen IRL but hope to get back to doing these soon!

[@AntonKastritskiy]

Awesome format, props for the effort it took to prepare this content. Definitely picked a couple of things that I will be taking to my setup. Look forward seeing the upcoming ones!

[@gavinvales8928]

you nvim guys are absolute magicians

[@teej_dv]

haha thanks!

[@Oswee]

Don't even consider to become evil person! :) Keep sharing this superb stuff. Learning so much in every single minute!!! :) :) You have a true talent!

[@ryanseipp6944]

Would love to see more Take Tuesdays! Learned a lot from this video already. Would also like to see an explanation on how your configurations in `after/plugin/*.lua` gets auto-loaded

[@teej_dv]

It's automatic now! Just get on a newer release and they get loaded.

[@nodidog]

Thanks for your uploads TJ, they're really helpful!

[@teej_dv]

Excellent! So happy to hear that!

[@starggoo]

This is great. Made some changes to my setup based on the vid. Looking forward to more.

[@ChillinAtDaClub]

Really enjoyed this and look forward to more plugin walkthroughs

[@elsombrero105]

What a great content! Thank you, TJ! Btw, it would be great to see something about the debugging in vim/neovim. Cheers!;)

[@bramlo411]

You could check out The Primagen's vid about Vimspector

[@teej_dv]

I think I will add doing nvim-dap to my list of things to do :) thanks for the suggestion!

[@sebas.random]

Hey TJ, you are good at teaching! Thanks a lot. I'm looking forward to the next episodes. How about exploring some wiki plugins? (I saw you are not using vimwiki anymore)

[@teej_dv]

Yeah, maybe I will try out one or more of the org-mode plugin replacements. Perhaps vimwiki could be interesting as well.

[@adityasinha3669]

Amazing format buddy ✌🏽

[@teej_dv]

Thanks :) I am enjoying it!

[@gersongallo6892]

I love this format, keep them coming

[@shadowfax92]

Thanks!

[@seanbanko1442]

What is your rationale for why tab completion is bad? It feels like a sensible default to me considering it mirrors tab completion in a browser search/address bar. Right now using Ctrl-N in Neovim and tab in my browser has me accidentally opening a new browser windows left and right.

[@teej_dv]

It's about 90% a joke, in general it's just because I like using one key to do one thing (not have tab be overloaded to do 20 different things) and I like using defaults if they are not annoying in nvim. So I think using c-n and c-p is the default and a lot of other menus / items / selections use those within vim, so I think it's good to keep those in mind. But you can use whatever makes you happy :)

[@JeremyBaumont]

Great content, great format, love it, I would love the same kind of walk-through into colorbuddy and your color setup.

[@teej_dv]

Ah! Colorbuddy would be fun to do :) I'd have to clean up some code for it I think, but it'd be a good one to revisit. Thanks, I am adding it to the list!

[@farzadmf]

First time watching a video from you (I knew about you, but I always thought your videos and explanations would be too advanced for me 😛) But, GREAT video! Very nice and detailed explanation. I subscribed and I hope I see more videos of this format 🙂

[@teej_dv]

Super glad to hear. I hope to keep making more in the TakeTuesday series.

[@farzadmf]

Looking forward to them 🙂

[@RoryIsNotACabbage]

This was really well explained TJ, thanks

[@cafce2567]

To get the auto import going i had to update the capabilities with `require("cmp_nvim_lsp").update_capabilities(vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities())` and add them to the lsp servers capabilites in it's setup. Everything else works great thank's for the in depth explanation.

[@jotarokujo6099]

Nice explanation. Thank you!

[@GaetanLepage]

Thank you TJ for sharing this great content !

[@teej_dv]

My pleasure!

[@yanuar1420]

Thank you TJ, I have been struggling to know what nvim-cmp and those following plugins does. and why it still need Ultisnips in my case. This video is a Godsend for me. Very understandable, explain what those plugins and config does. *chef kiss

[@ericsquires8896]

Thanks for the video! What keys you are entering at 21:07 where the function arguments are added and you can jump between "k", "v" and the end of the function? I can't seem to replicate that behavior.

[@teej_dv]

After "accept"ing the solution (which is for me), I can move with which is my luasnip "jump-to-next" key.

[@tokiomutex4148]

Why is the Tab/Shift-Tab thing wrong?

[@nathanhyland]

Nothing else in vim works that way. Just more consistent and idiomatic not to.

[@tokiomutex4148]

@@nathanhyland So tab completion is a pathway to a non-portable workflow

[@teej_dv]

@@tokiomutex4148 That is a great way to say it. In general, if the default shortcuts are not TERRIBLE, then I recommend keeping them the way they are. Often times other things will eventually make sense and it prevents you from overriding any other builtin workflows.

[@tokiomutex4148]

@@teej_dv The default shortcuts are well designed unlike my naive configuration which may overwrite (useful) default behavior that I was not aware of at the time of writing.

[@saikoushikmacha7379]

great video waiting for the LuaSnip

[@teej_dv]

Hopefully in the next few weeks :)

[@n0kodoko143]

:h ins-completion - likely just changed the way that I will use completion. I appreciate the heads up. Soon to be former 'tab' user. Seems worth the immediate workflow hit that I'll take getting up to speed.

[@lvgsredarmy8776]

"When I type this *octothorp*..." 😆 TJ you're supposed to be a millenial, not a boomer 😛 that's "hashtag" to you haha Regardless, thanks as always TJ. I always learn a ton from your videos! This one in particular was *packed* to the brim with goodies about nvim-cmp, a plugin that I've used for a while but haven't explored the API of very much. I have several ideas now about how to make my Neovim experience even better with nvim-cmp after watching your video 😃. Your work in the Neovim community as always is much appreciated :)

[@teej_dv]

I will never give up octothorp. IT IS SO FUN TO SAY!!!!!

[@axeldahlberg7043]

The gh_issues source is really cool! One thing I was thinking is if it would be possible to set the "kind" (or what it is called) to be the issue title? Such that you can see them all in the menu, instead of the generic "Text". Great video, already looking forward to the next :)

[@teej_dv]

Yeah! I didn't explore that part, but I think you can set the kind to be something else and that will change the "Text" thing you see.

[@Dieterbe]

Very interesting. thanks TJ. I was able to follow along and got the gh_issues plugin working too. It's interesting that it just shows all the numbers, and you still have to iterate them manually to visually inspect them. This makes me wonder if it might make sense to use telescope as a way to drill down to a single completion item, as it allows to search on keywords that are not part of the ultimate result (e.g. the issue body, which we don't want inserted as a completion), and allows fuzzy searching, of course...

[@teej_dv]

Yeah, you could make a telescope picker that just inserts the selected value and grab all the issues from github as well. It would not be super complicated to do if you already have the gh_issues plugin working!

[@aklsh22]

Treesitter next! Btw, I’m curious as to how you get the invisible characters like newlines show up.

[@teej_dv]

Yes, good call for doing tree sitter. I will add that to the list. You are looking for "help listchars"

[@_vikramhegde_]

Looking forward to more of these 🙌

[@marwanfikrat7716]

Excellent. Looking forward to many more episodes of TakeTuesday. My most lacking area of (neo)vim is the native ft-plugins it comes with. No idea how any of that works, and didn't find the builtin docs to be too helpful (I say this lightly because I probably didn't look in the right place or gave it enough of my time). Thanks for all your work TJ, it really does make a difference to us, that watch, and aren't so tied up with the development and ecosystem of what is neovim.

[@teej_dv]

Maybe check ":help ftplugin". That might be helpful.

[@ciacconas4903]

More Take Tuesday episodes pls!!

[@teej_dv]

Part 1 of LuaSnip will hopefully be done soon :)

[@andresgutgon]

Hi @TJ DeVries great content. I implemented some of your code but I had super TAB and I feel more easy to use it. Would be awesome if you could do a small video explaining with detail why you think using tab is not a good idea. Thanks!

[@teej_dv]

That's a good idea, I'll do it sometime :)

[@nraw_]

@@teej_dv Are we there yet? I'd also be interested :)

[@PratyushBharati]

Hey TJ, can you help me understand why nvim-lsp and it's associated ecosystem setups are really much more hands on (or maybe I'm doing it wrong) as compared to CoC. I have had to install everything from source as my org runs RHEL7.8 so I didn't even have node, rust, lua stuff. And on the two occasions I tried to setup nvim-lsp, it just took too long without having root access. Any words of advice?

[@PratyushBharati]

Side note... I'm not a career programmer. I'm an electronics engineering, but just have lot of python stuff to develop for certain chip testing automation

[@PratyushBharati]

Figured it out. Nvm. I love it now. So fast holy shit.

[@teej_dv]

@@PratyushBharati haha I love this thread.

[@PratyushBharati]

@@teej_dv Its actually allowed me to make an even more streamlined setup file, cause all node modules can be consolidated and initialised in a specific dedicated location rather than have each user of my .rc have to CocInstall

[@kevinlee6416]

Great work👍👍, very helpful thanks

[@AelDiaoul]

What are your cmp select prev/next mappings? I tried default but it seems to break the cmp window.

[@teej_dv]

Just or . You don't need to prefix with to _move_ between the selections, that is to enter into a certain type of ins-completion mode.

[@serge_schumacher]

Hey TJ! Thank you for your work, I've learned a lot by watching videos you're created over these years. I have a question: How do I make nvim-cmp source dap on runtime (on debugging). Let's say I'm using python or query django object. So, I want my autocompletion suggest all dynamic fields containing in this object. nvim-dap has this info, but all autocompletion sources suggest only static data. I've tried rcarriga/cmp-dap with no luck. Before I start writing my completion source, can you give me a tip on a ready-to-use solution? Thanks!

[@tyrox9]

Really good video thanks!

[@avimehenwal]

amazing video, very useful content

[@teej_dv]

Thanks :)

[@baka_geddy]

Do Emacs next!

[@teej_dv]

Sorry, I don't review Operating Systems.

[@nyxkrage]

@@teej_dv Review evil-mode then, AS A NEOVIM CORE DEV

[@jmann277]

Fantastic content! Greatly appreciated.

[@mikloscsepella2743]

great content. keep 'em coming plz! would love one about LuaSnip. thank you

[@teej_dv]

I have a video almost done for comment.nvim and then the next videos will be about LuaSnip!

[@mikloscsepella2743]

@@teej_dv thats exciting ty!

[@cristianinujazznight3044]

Hi, is there a way to call cmp.complete while typing? Just to have the same effect from coc.nvim

[@FaintArt]

Hey teej, Can you show you'd configure github copilot with this too?? Also you are really doing a great job! keep it up!!

[@ayoubelmhamdi7920]

you are a great teacher،

[@rblab5]

Thank you TJ... great content!

[@wormholecowboy]

Hey TJ, how can you get cmp to work with npm libraries?

[@muhammadraza7231]

I am finding very difficult to add jump to next or previous placeholder. Help me Brother

[@PaulJacobson]

Thanks for this video. I found this helpful.

[@ak2f]

Thank you, really helpful video. Next maybe nvim-dap, how to setup etc.?

[@teej_dv]

It's on the list!

[@kyp0717]

If you don't use TAB for completion, what do you use? Please refer me to past video that discuss your prefer method for triggering completion. Thanks.

[@teej_dv]

I use :help ins-completion for triggering completion when I need to, and let nvim-cmp do the rest in terms of auto-completing. I will try and make a video about it. It's 90% a joke anyway. You should do what makes you like Vim the most :)

[@dontwanttousemyrealnametol6765]

How would you do something similar to "g:mucomplete#can_complete" (lifepillar/vim-mucomplete) with nvim-cmp?

[@teej_dv]

Hmmm, I'm not familiar with this. I don't know of good analogues. Sorry!

[@majestic2814]

How would anyone use the default config with = cmp.mapping.confirm and select = true? It makes you unable to insert new lines. Am I missing something obvious about completion or new lines or is noone using the default?

[@teej_dv]

I think it's only applicable when the completion menu is visible (so after it's not visible anymore, enter makes you do a new line)

[@window.location]

Awesome tutorial Tj

[@vellankiindeevar5530]

this is really great sir . we also want a video on telescope.nvim

[@teej_dv]

hehe a bit too self promotion for the first one, but I will keep that in mind :)

[@guilhermeferreira2068]

Hey i've noticed that when u changed your config you run some tj#save_and_exec and that just reload your config, how can i reload with a keybind for lua config files?

[@teej_dv]

I re-run files by doing `:source %`, but it just checks to make sure it's a valid filetype to do so.

[@lpanebr]

Would it be possible to enabled the gh completion for comments within file to allow referencing issue numbers in Todo comments for example?

[@teej_dv]

I think someone actually did that already on github! I It's like cmp-git or something like that.

[@lpanebr]

@@teej_dv thanks!!!

[@windsweptflutters]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@teej_dv]

So glad you liked it!

[@jjzunino]

Hi TJ, this is the third time I'm posting this question because for some reason yt keeps deleting it. I was wondering whether you're using a different version of gruvbuddy since I can't get the same syntax highlighting as you

[@teej_dv]

Hmm, that's pretty weird -- do you have tree sitter installed? If so and it's not working, make an issues on my github for one of the repos and we can see if we could fix it.

[@QuentR1994]

Really enjoyed that! Thanks 👏

[@dim-2d]

Great video, as usual! I was wondering if (in a future video) you could explain in a bit more details for noobs like me what the difference/relationship/overlap of treesitter and LSP is. I mean they both do syntax highlighting for example? Should I install both? Sorry I tried reading on it but I got a bit confused

[@teej_dv]

They have different focuses. LSP is focused on project level intelligence, tree-sitter is focused on file level intelligence. In generally tree-sitter is doing the highlighting. You can install both. I have a video somewhere on m channel w/ a brief comparison

[@dim-2d]

@@teej_dv yeah I did a bit more reading on the subject and I have a pretty clear picture now, the comment is a bit old. Anyway, thanks Teej!

[@qwertyasdf7615]

Ooo yeahhh!! Nvim dap!

[@luissolanodev]

Hey TJ, great video!! I wanted to know a little more about on why is that you don't use and think is bad to use tab to autocomplete? Thanks!

[@teej_dv]

I'm mostly joking. Chatted a short bit about it here: www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/qdj7ir/comment/hhp4c27/?context=3

[@mancesnowdon1757]

Hey I think the cmp gh plugin was really cool but I don't know why, I am having issue with the vim.json.decode method: attempt to index field 'json' (a nil value). Does someone have an idea what might be the issue ?

[@teej_dv]

Ah, it's only available on nvim 0.6 -- I had forgotten that it was a nightly on feature. You can do it instead with vim.fn.json_encode and decodes or use nightly and then it should work.

[@mancesnowdon1757]

@@teej_dv Huge thanks !

[@davidsicilia5316]

Thanks for making these videos

[@teej_dv]

Happy to do so :) more coming soon!

[@ianliu88]

Why did you say Tab key is wrong? Could you expand more on the subject?

[@LaBatata101]

How do I get transparency in the completion menu?

[@teej_dv]

:help pumblend Or it may be a setting for nvim-cmp if that's what you're talking about.

[@dani98000]

What keyboard are you using?

[@teej_dv]

I've got a dactyl!

[@whereistejas]

Hi TJ, great video. I'm using nvim-cmp as well and it is great. I use it for Rust. I wonder if there is a way for us to order the code completion suggestions, for example, I want to see variable names before I see method names?

[@teej_dv]

Yeah! You could create a new thing for comparators. See a plugin like this: github.com/lukas-reineke/cmp-under-comparator to show you how you could do that.

[@anoname10]

Pls could you point me where should I look to get similar status line with \-master\- and etc for neovim? Cool vid btw

[@teej_dv]

I use expressline, but I think there are a lot of new lua statuslines that are easier to use. I think just google "github neovim lua statusline" and pick one that looks good and has stars. I don't have a lot of great opinions on the matter.

[@matthiasqueitsch3720]

Hey, great work. I tried to replicate you gh_issues lua file. Unfortunately, I get an error "attempt to index field 'json' (a nil value)" in the "pcall(vim.json.decode..."-line. gh returns the json normaly. Any ideas?

[@teej_dv]

Ah, that requires a newer version of Neovim. I think you can replicate with vim.fn.json_decode instead. And then you may need to schedule the callback (on_exit = vim.schedule_wrap(function() ... end) etc.

[@matthiasqueitsch3720]

@@teej_dv Thanks, yeah I figured out the first part (0.6.x-dev...) will work, but then other stuff gets broken. If I use my own Json decoder it says something like "cant vim echo in callback". I will try the on_exit method. EDIT: Awesome - it works. Thanks again!

[@adityakurdunkar6655]

keep up such good content