The easiest neovim autocompletion setup?

[@pi_ist_toll]

2:12 VERY IMPORTANT: Add blink.cmp as a dependency 'cause it can happen that it hasn't been loaded else. (TJ did it, but didn't mention it)

[@youngreda4410]

custom snippets next would be cool love the series!

[@ricardorien]

YEEEEEEAH

[@dadinhoschannel4003]

YEEEEAH

[@teej_dv]

ok ok i cover custom snippets at some point in the series haha

[@dennistanui7085]

​@@teej_dvdon't forget to cover virtual text and multiple completion sources please 🙏

[@paulthexton7483]

I've been quite happy with nvim-cmp so far, but this looks excellent, I especially like the signature help sticking around while you're still filling out parameters! Looks like I'm tweaking my nvim config this evening!

[@PasterNoster94]

This

[@yukio9400]

yeah i didn't think i would need it but ... yeah seems like its a bit better than nvim-cmp

[@teej_dv]

ya, i'm going to try it out for a month or so and then do a proper longer video for it I think

[@felipetrost]

Even though I've been using nvim for a while now, and I have gone through configuring most of the things you talk about myself, this series is super fun, and I'm learning stuff I didn't know. props for the idea and the execution

[@teej_dv]

thanks :) trying to make it both fun and informative, so glad you feel that way!

[@IndiMentals]

Thanks!

[@teej_dv]

Whoa!! Thanks!!

[@Djzaamir]

I think with every passing day TJ and prime are getting me one step closer to being a full time neovim user.

[@teej_dv]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@Shafti-Code]

its day 3 of configuring nvim by myself by modifing primes"0 to lsp" video, mr tj this shit so fire please continue this series ive never seen someone get to the point while also sharing necessary knowledge and educating people on the topic of vim, thank you very much

[@friendliness1337]

The other day I said "I'll need to look into blink soon", started looking into it today and then this video goes live 😂 Thanks again my man!😊

[@teej_dv]

haha np, i'll do a bigger one after i try the plugin for awhile

[@nemethda]

"if you want you can do these other ones, but you're wrong.. that's okay" 🤣 but WOW the signature help is a game changer thanks so much Teej, I love this series!!

[@teej_dv]

just tryin to have a little fun and make some laughs in the vids ;)

[@nemethda]

@@teej_dv Teej, I started to configure this but should I treat blink.cmp as drop-in replacement of nvim-cmp?

[@mohansella]

Really helpful. I use nvim-cmp so far but its configuration was the hardest that i experienced in nvim plugins :(

[@FilipeAguiarCarvalho]

I know, right? I had it working for everything except vue files. It was broken for days until i got the time to fix it. I'll try blink to see if it's worth.

[@teej_dv]

ya, i love nvim-cmp but I m going to give blink a try for a month or two and then give my thoughts

[@ForeverZer0]

I recently made the switch to blink, and would definitely recommend checking it out if you are using nvim-cmp. I am typically guilty of of just sticking with what I already know, but spent some recently trying out some popular alternatives to plugins I use, and ended up making some major changes from plugins I never imagined I could do without, blink being on new additions. Not to steal any thunder from TJ, but I even replaced Telescope with fzf-lua, which totally surprised me, as Telescope has been on of those plugins I pretty much can't live without, it is quintessential to the neovim experience. They are functionally very similar to each other, but fzf-lua has a few extra bells-and-whistles, and feels more responsive.

[@Kaikaci07]

I switched to blink two days ago and it's wonderful

[@whenrow3630]

I love how Teej is doing the videos faster than the previous one. I'm very hyped to be on 25th :D

[@teej_dv]

haha i'll try to keep up the fun!

[@davidnaneishvili]

Thanks! And great sweater by the way!

[@priyanshukatuwal]

This series would've helped me so much an year ago

[@teej_dv]

haha sorry, i didn't invent time travel but i can at least make nvim videos LOL

[@priyanshukatuwal]

@@teej_dv Hehe no biggies, I still keep learning something new from this series!

[@Kane0123]

Let's get right to it - love that

[@teej_dv]

that's what i try to do in all the vids (except if i have a good idea for a meme haha)

[@majam1n]

What is this sorcery. Teej on fire 🔥

[@teej_dv]

thank you thank you :)

[@Peter-UK-nl6cv]

mind blown

[@stefan_luptak]

Is there a typo in capabilites vs. capabilities at 1:57?

[@avi7278]

The 12 days of teej

[@Junior.Nascimento]

this is fire

[@teej_dv]

thanks!!

[@CNich90]

Thank God I started my neovim journey after blink.cmp was already a thing. I bypassed all the pain people talk about when configuring nvim-cmp.

[@teej_dv]

i think nvim-cmp is not too bad, but it does take a little more reading haha

[@not_ever]

I don't remember nvim-cmp being particularly bad to setup. People who struggle will always be louder than people who just set something up and get on with their day.

[@rexsybimatrimawahyu3292]

Ceo of neovim....

[@programmer1356]

you too eh? [heheheh I see a horse with laser eyes]

[@user-sq1oi9qp8w]

he is one of core maintainer of neovim after all

[@teej_dv]

haha thanks

[@miyalys]

Don't know if this is a good suggestion for a topic, or really possible, but I'm quite curious about suggestions on what doesn't need to go in the config or ways to clean it up. Fx. things that used to be relevant to use plugins for, but which is now handled natively by neovim in a better way. Fx. it seems I don't really need vim-highlightedyank anymore as Neovim can handle this natively just by setting an option.

[@eflinjh]

How did this work with "capabilites" as the property name on the table instead of "capablities"... did it fuzzy find the right config option too? for reference timestamp- 2:14 line 12

[@ArisTheInquring]

You know i had seen this the other day when browsing the cmp docs is it better ? The way it was referenced made it sound like a much better completion engine

[@teej_dv]

I'm going to try it out for a month and give my thoughts as a comparison

[@toltarius]

Hey TJ, I love this a lot! And thank you for the tutorials. I just moved my nvim config today from packer to lazy because of your videos and its been amazing. Though, I am unsure why or how the icons on the left of the cmp menu are not showing for me like you did at 2:33 in the video. They show as a ? mark icon for me. Can you point me in the right direction to fixing this? If not I will just try to google it as best I can until I give up.

[@teej_dv]

hmmm, all the configuration i have for completion is in this video haha

[@toltarius]

@@teej_dv No worries! It works as expected its just the icons do not show like for the symbols. I am running windows terminal however so it could have to do something with that. Off to googling I go!

[@n.fejzic]

@@toltarius Can it be that you miss a nerd font?

[@not_ever]

@@toltarius You are either missing nerd fonts or you have a really out of date version of nerd fonts

[@toltarius]

Yep it was a nerd font in a old version. Thanks guys.

[@disturb16]

So much simpler to add snippets now

[@Teslacoil33]

I know I'm "wrong", but trying to use CTRL Y whilst using CRTL N, CTRL P to cycle between autocomplete options is just awkward on my fingers. I think it's the transition of my right index finger from the "N" key to the "Y" key which feels like such a huge jump. Most of the time I'll be cycling forward through these options with CTRL N and then it's trivial for my right pinky to just give that Enter key a quick little tap. Maybe it's just the years of muscle memory. Maybe one day I'll transition, but it is not this day!

[@FrankJonen]

What would you recommend for writers in terms of getting definitions to show up like these autocompletes? Like you type “Westeros” and get a list of all places within it along with a one liner description.

[@tomaszgalkowski8701]

You'd need a custom LSP.

[@teej_dv]

ya custom LSP or a custom auto completion source. either would work probably

[@sayanta01]

can you make a video on: A new way to setup LSPs has been merged

[@teej_dv]

ya, but it needs a little time to cook first, i don't want to make the video and have it get out of date. it's still nightly only and very recent

[@sayanta01]

@@teej_dv ohk, btw thanks for this series

[@Greenbay-bn3yk]

Hey bro, I installed this exactly as you did but my completion suggestions and signature help are not as rich as yours. How do I fine tune my lspconfig?

[@overthinker8532]

Thanks for this info (I dont even use neovim)

[@teej_dv]

hahaha well thanks for the comment anyway!

[@JoeBrigAI]

To get to this point, we need: neovim < obviously lazy < package manager nvim-treesitter < configures builtin treesitter LSP's installed < external processes to neovim nvim-lspconfig < configures builtin LSP features blink.cmp < alternative to builtin omni completion ?

[@IainSimmons]

This video is part of TJ's Advent of Neovim series, if you go back and watch the previous videos in the series, he covers all of those things 🙂

[@teej_dv]

yup! basically every line of config is covered in the advent of nvim series

[@n.a.s1096]

Can you show how to use the built-in completion.

[@teej_dv]

i mentioned it in a previous video, and to read ins-completion. i don't think i'll make a whole video about it. tho

[@blyedev]

This is great, is there any way to use it with the lspkind menu feature? You made a video a while back that set up lspkind to show where each completion item comes from, the function highlight is cool enough to switch over but the source label is very important to me

[@teej_dv]

i'm not sure - i would check their readme and see. maybe i will come back with some advanced config for the plugin or a review of it after a month or something.

[@blyedev]

@teej_dv i did some digging since the comment and they do support it! Without an additional plugin even, they have that as built in functionality!

[@EliasHansenu7f]

I installed nvim via kickstart and added som custom plugins. But when I tried to disable nvim-cmp to try this plugin Ive got a lot of errors. I don't know why yet, but it may be a good idea to untangle the awesome kickstart project

[@kpr3729]

Hope you can implement this on the kickstart-nvim repo soon

[@teej_dv]

ya, i'm going to give blink a try for awhile, but if I like it a lot then I may update kickstart nvim to use it as well

[@kpr3729]

@@teej_dv Thank you Tj! I've spent the whole night yesterday trying to refactor my kickstart, although it worked for go projects using mason +lspconfig, it couldnt say the same with JS (using eslint, tsserver). I just reverted it back to the base lsp conf from kickstart :P

[@samirhembrom2559]

the brackets for functions are automatically created how do i stop that behavior?

[@risunapple105]

it shows completions after installing and setting it up but not from the lsp they just seem to be mainly or only from keywords on the same buffer?

[@leonardodavinci2856]

so is this complementary to nvim cmp or seperate project because i wanted to see the path of the import variable and i was able to do it in nvim cmp but in blink ill need to read more about how to do that. Also i have been tring disabling the auto suggestions while writing code and it really makes you remember the names of the commands which you will forget when using autocompelete. Also removed around 10-15 plugins from the neovim for the minimalistic. Creating my own remaps for the snippets.

[@GuyKroizman]

I just installed lazyvim and I got auto complete out of the box. Where is coming from then? What should i disable before doing these changes? Please😊

[@raphaeloliveira01]

LazyVim already uses blink.cmp by default.

[@Aoi-uv8ee]

Dear SanteeJ, This year for Christmas I want to debug dotnet projects in neovim.

[@thegreasetray7676]

I added this to the kickstart config but when I type vim.api.bsl and accept the nvim_buf_set_lines selection it goes to select mode with brackets and params instead of just compeleting the method. How do I change this behaviour to match yours?

[@thegreasetray7676]

Ok, it was cuz of the code snippet lmao Realized it's a pretty neat feature after digging more into it.

[@sergioteixeira3313]

cant get buffer words working with blink though

[@metin4yt]

Hey! Is there any way to activate plugins by file type? I work on many technologies and I would like stuff to only load if there is a reason for it

[@nazarzibilyuk1511]

Does anybody knows why signature might not work?

[@darkchoclate]

I'm confused, how it's easier than cmp? You setup, you pass capabilities to lsp. that's it.

[@teej_dv]

i like the presets, so that you have a bit less to do in terms of keymaps (and less setup for the sources from what i've seen)

[@halamadrid5238]

Swapped to blink last week and ITS SO FAST

[@MonospaceMentor]

Blink and you'll miss it!

[@teej_dv]

ya, it does seem VERY snappy

[@idk-nv]

Nice vido, How to config source priority?

[@teej_dv]

it's in the order of the sources in the list of config options

[@Ask-786]

Wanna give a try. Is it capable of showing the doc while scrolling through completions even before we actually select it huh?

[@teej_dv]

I'm not sure - i have to explore the plugin a bit more

[@gungun974]

Look cool. I will try it right now since I think nvim-cmp SUCK (or at least I got my neovim going very very slow after opening too many buffers)

[@patricorgi]

basedpyright lsp does not offer such signature help, or is it because I didn't configure it properly?

[@teej_dv]

it may be that the LSP does not support it, I'm not sure - sorry :/

[@keteremillpario]

how do you manage to combine copilot and autosuggestions? I'm struggling a bit lately (I just installed copilot to see how it works but it's conflicting with autosuggestions, specially the keybindings)

[@mba849]

How do you show these keystrokes at the bottom of the vid?

[@yamiteru4376]

How does it compare to coq though?

[@VTEKDK]

Why is C-y a godt keybind?

[@JoeBrigAI]

anyone have an example of a config with blink and mason

[@usernr546]

I also use blink.cmp, but encountered some weird behaviors. When I write the same vim.api.nvim_buf_set_lines( I get the same hover window as you get. But every time I type "0" for example it closes the hover and opens it up again when I type the ",". I do not get why and it looks much smoother on your video then for me. It is kinda distracting. Does someone maybe know why? EDIT: If anyone ever stumbles over this: Noice also provided a signature which collided with the one from blink. See comment below

[@teej_dv]

hmm, maybe old nvim version? that's my only guess offhand. Otherwise i'd check the issue tracker

[@usernr546]

@@teej_dv Thanks for your answer :) I just digged a bit into it and found out that it was actually "folkge/noice.nvim" was also providing signatures to me that had this behavior. Disabling it in noice and enabling signature in blink solved the issue and now works like a charm! Thanks for your videos you are the GOAT!

[@cz7259]

It’s very sad to switch to blink and just realize how slow the LSP server is. No blink can save that. But hey at least it’s fast when I am in lua files.

[@teej_dv]

haha yes, some lsps could definitely go faster

[@iukys3889]

Is that it ??

[@teej_dv]

that's it................

[@karamanliev]

I cant make cmdline completion work with blink for some reason.

[@teej_dv]

hmm, i haven't tried it out myself yet - i like the default completion stuff usually

[@karamanliev]

@@teej_dv The default one doesn't suggest words from the buffer with "/" and "?", I think. But they have this in their default config: cmdline = function() local type = vim.fn.getcmdtype() -- Search forward and backward if type == '/' or type == '?' then return { 'buffer' } end -- Commands if type == ':' then return { 'cmdline' } end return {} end,

[@justincmendes]

D: y r u yelling at me

[@LorenzoBettini]

For sure I'm missing something, but I followed along and I keep getting this error: Error executing vim.schedule lua callback: ...hare/neovim-advent/lazy/blink.cmp/lua/blink/cmp/init.lua:21: Error while downloading blink.cmp pre-built binary: Can't download from gi thub due to not being on a git tag and no fuzzy.prebuilt_binaries.force_version set, but found no built version of the library. Either run `cargo build --release` via your package m anager, switch to a git tag, or set `fuzzy.prebuilt_binaries.force_version` in config. See the README for more info. stack traceback: [C]: in function 'error' ...hare/neovim-advent/lazy/blink.cmp/lua/blink/cmp/init.lua:21: in function '' vim/_editor.lua: in function

[@LorenzoBettini]

OK, found the problem: I hadn't noticed that from the README file he jumped to a release tag, and so the version = 'v.0*'; I had started with '*' and the prebuilt binary couldn't be downloaded. I had to do ":Lazy", update and sync. Very very confusing!

[@colydeane]

@@LorenzoBettini Thank you this fixed my problem too.

[@eduardofernandez2697]

is he roasting prime?🤔

[@kostadinterziev1453]

How does ur theme have that texture on it? Kinda feels like paper is it a plugin or terminal specific?

[@teej_dv]

hahaha it's actually just some weird youtube encoding issue!

[@kostadinterziev1453]

@@teej_dv damn, someone should make that a theme, i love the retro feel of it

[@hugosales8102]

C-n and C-p, common emacs w :v

[@teej_dv]

haha i think c-n, c-p have been in vim for a long time (idk who had it first)

[@hugosales8102]

I only tried vim very briefly (before emacs, actually), so I wouldn't know, but in emacs those are the main navigation keys, comparable to hjkl. I will grant that it's a bit weird that it's C-b for back, C-f for foward and C-n for next and C-p for previous, di they're spread out, but it's not such a big deal. It's awesome that they're everywhere, like in bash or anything using readline. I'm sure vim is great, but I couldn't get used to the modal stuff

[@terxxxz]

Is it JetBrainsMono?

[@gerydony6531]

looks like Berkeley Mono (paid font)

[@terxxxz]

@@gerydony6531 ty

[@teej_dv]

ya, berkeley mono - jetbrains mono is great though

[@asg8813]

Is this better than nvim-cmp? How?

[@AhmadMughal1]

much much faster and fuzzy finding as well

[@런지부]

The repo says it's still beta , is it unstable? I should try it though

[@AhmadMughal1]

@@런지부 So far i had 2 issues which were resolved the next day i woke up. If you don't use a lot of external cmp sources it should be very easy to replace and it offers most common native sources by default so do check that list. After those 2 issues I've had no problems since.

[@SR-ti6jj]

Hmm, so that's it?

[@teej_dv]

haha that's it!

[@sairaj5660]

benchod, this is way too easy to use as compared to nvim-cmp

[@br4vetrave1er]

lets type something! types kkk... me af 🗿

[@teej_dv]

hahahaha

[@alexferreira1534]

first!

[@teej_dv]

first reply

[@mogambro]

Ctrl-N and P are so wrong. Should be Ctrl-K and Ctrl-J instead

[@willernst]

C-n and C-p are nice patterns to establish because they're ubiquitous, though.

[@teej_dv]

:help ins-completion :)

[@nasso_]

i really need a way to preview the auto-import in my completion menu because sometimes there are 8467376949465 different types with the same name and i have to guess which one is the one im looking for... can this do that?

[@henryallenlaudemilk5161]

Anyone use mini-completion? Why blink.nvim over mini-completion?

[@teej_dv]

all the mini plugins are great, hard to go wrong with them

[@Ghostbutfromdestiny2]

2 time but still curious, who no startup? (like alpha.nvim)

[@teej_dv]

why startup? for me it doesn't give me any useful info haha

[@Ghostbutfromdestiny2]

@@teej_dv Thats fair, i use one because i normally need the most recently used files (i meant why in the original comment). Thanks for reply tho

[@etiedem]

Thanks!

[@teej_dv]

Wow!! Thanks!! I really appreciate it!