Eager completion for fuzzy complete about autocomplete-all-the-things

[vifon]

It should be possible with a new completer.
A quick and dirty solution: make a copy of the suffix-complete completer (these lines), rename it and set $char_class_before to \s instead of \S. Then use your new completer. You might want to experiment with various sets of options but I've tested this one just now and it worked.

Tell me if you need further assistance or if I may close the issue (or close it yourself).

[amosbird]

Thanks! Um but it doesn't work if there are spaces between completion candidates. Can I make fuzzy-complete to have such eager behavior?

[vifon]

Yes, it should work with fuzzy-complete too but I didn't check it. It might be tricky to find the right combination of regexps that won't be too greedy.

What I usually do is abort the completion and add another occurrence of the last part I typed, i.e. /po becomes /popo.

[amosbird]

ah, good point. I'll use that trick 😄 . Thanks! BTW, can I have empty string trigger completions for every space separated items? Use case pdfcrop /path/to/file /path/to/file . After typing the first path entry, I'd like to auto complete the second one using just one call of fuzzy-complete without any inputs.

[vifon]

You would need some special character to mark where to stop searching for the text supplied by the user. The completion needs to know what to consider an input. 'fuzzy-complete' takes all characters before the cursor matching \S (all non-whitespace characters), fuzzy-word-complete uses [-\w] (every "word character" and additionally a hyphen). In your case we would need to also read the whitespace characters but then we have no character to stop at unless we add one artificially, for example you could add a dollar sign before your input and then probably remove it manually. In general, $char_class_to_complete is the variable you'd need to tinker with.

I hope to rewrite this plugin at some point to make such modifications easier but it's tough to estimate when I'll have the time to do so.

[amosbird]

'fuzzy-complete' takes all characters before the cursor matching \S (all non-whitespace characters)

Can we just have a special case for empty inputs?

[blueyed]

@amosbird
btw: you can also use pdfcrop /path/to/file{,.new} directly.

[amosbird]

@blueyed thanks. Um i meant to do in place cropping.

[blueyed]

Then pdfcrop /path/to/file{,}, or pdfcrop /path/to/file !#$.. ;) - but enough for the offtopic.

[vifon]

@amosbird What do you mean by empty inputs?

[amosbird]

I mean that all characters before the cursor matching \S is empty

[amosbird]

It's like if I input nothing and start triggering completion, it should match something like ".*"

[vifon]

What should it complete in such case? Every single whole line?

[amosbird]

no, every single items separated by spaces

[vifon]

Hm, I like this idea. I'll keep it in mind when rewriting the plugin.