TakeTuesday E01: nvim-cmp 

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

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.

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

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

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" 😀👍

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!

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

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)

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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)

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

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

Thank you. waiting for the lua snippets video

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!

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.

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! :)

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!)

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

: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.

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

you nvim guys are absolute magicians

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.

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

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 :)

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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 🙂

Nice explanation. Thank you!

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

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

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?

Amazing format buddy ✌🏽

I love this format, keep them coming

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!

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.

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!

Fu***ng hell that Subscribe Button jump scare at 4:53 almost killed me. I was kinda sleepy in front of the pc 😅

Really enjoyed this and look forward to more plugin walkthroughs

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

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

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?

great video waiting for the LuaSnip

Really good video thanks!

This was really well explained TJ, thanks

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.

Thank you so much for this video!

Do Emacs next!

Thank you TJ for sharing this great content !

Thanks for this video. I found this helpful.

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

Hello. I find myself quite interested in your anti-Tab POV but you never really showcased your actual work flow. I suppose that does make sense given the scope of this broadcast. That said, can I see your actual autocomplete workflow actually put to use anywhere? I'm really interested in how you quickly and effectively autocomplete and move throughout snippets, etc without Tab. Thanks in advance and all the best.

More Take Tuesday episodes pls!!

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?

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

amazing video, very useful content

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

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

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?

Ooo yeahhh!! Nvim dap!

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

My dude, excellent video. I see you use your custom plugin to modify the window colors, how do that I that vanilla wise without your plugin? Things like "Method, "Class", etc.. has this ugly highlighting and I have no idea where its coming from.

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

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

Why is the Tab/Shift-Tab thing wrong?

Thanks for making these videos

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

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.

you are a great teacher،

Looking forward to more of these 🙌

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?

"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 :)

Great work👍👍, very helpful thanks

Fantastic content! Greatly appreciated.

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

very useful! Thank you

Thank you TJ... great content!

Can we embed AI to process our voices, and speak with the computer through Neovim, like Iron Man, or it's only about Spider Man things?

Ok. This series is cool.

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 ?

Thanks for the video, I'll probs stick with coc for now because it's super easy to setup (imo)