excluding paths about supertab

[ervandew]

I just added support for setting a buffer local variable to disable supertab (344016d).

So now you can add

let b:SuperTabDisabled = 1

to an ftplugin to disable supertab for an entire filetype or wrap the setting of that var in a

if expand('%:p') =~ '/some/path/'
  ...
endif

to disable supertab based on path.

Does that give you the functionality you need?

[sardaukar]

I'm sorry, but I'm not very proficient with vim - when you say I can add this setting to an ftplugin, what exactly does that entail? You can have a look at my vim config here https://github.com/sardaukar/dotvim

[ervandew]

You can type :h ftplugin in vim for more info, but what I mean is that if you wanted to disable supertab for an entire filetype (ruby, java, python, etc.) you would add the setting to the ~/.vim/ftplugin/<filetype>.vim file or create one if necessary. In your case, rspec files seem to be ruby files with no dedicated file type in vim so you'd want to add something like the following to your ~/.vim/ftplugin/ruby.vim:

if expand('%:p') =~ '^/some/path/to/rspec/files/'
    let b:SuperTabDisabled = 1
endif

[sardaukar]

thing is, I don't want to disable SuperTab. I just want to include the /spec// files IF I'm editing a file in the /spec/ folder. Otherwise, keep them out of the completion suggestions. Is this possible?

[ervandew]

Ah, I see what you want now. Well this is outside the scope of supertab, but can be controlled somewhat by vim's complete option (see :h 'complete' for info). If your rspec files are loaded in buffers then I don't think there is any way to selectively choose which open buffers are scanned for completion and which are not. If you simply want to scan other rspec files that are not loaded when editing another rspec file, then you can probably use the k or s values for complete to do that. You may want to see what your complete value is set to now (:set complete?) and decide if removing one or more of the options from that will help (Ex. :set complete-=u).

[sardaukar]

OK, thanks anyway! :)

[vipworld]

I was just doing some research on this, and while I'm not very familiar with vim (or programming for that matter). I think I can help. If you have vim and supertab installed already and don't have the latest version of supertab from this github repo, you'll have to add the line manually to your plugin folder.

On linux it's probably located in:
~/.vim/plugins/supertab.vim

Search for this line:
function! s:SuperTab(command)

Directly below it, add the fix:
if exists('b:SuperTabDisabled') && b:SuperTabDisabled
return ""
endif

Now you can add this line to ~/.vimrc:

if expand('%:p') =~ '^/some/path/to/rspec/files/'
let b:SuperTabDisabled = 1
endif

the path is just a regex so personally, I was looking to disable autocomplete for tabs, and I added this:
if expand('%:p') =~ '.tsv$'
let b:SuperTabDisabled = 1
endif