Omni completion: Pattern not found

[fullofcaffeine]

Trying to get completion to work, MacVim 7.3, latest version of vaxe (HEAD). OSX Lion.

The project is a simple Haxe test class:

➜ haxe_test ls
build.hxml marcelo marcelo.hx test.hx

marcelo.hx:

class Marcelo {
static function main() {
var a:Marcelo = new Marcelo();
}
public function new() {
trace("hi");
}

}

build.hxml:

-main Marcelo
-js marcelo.js

When I try to use completion, I get the message specified in the title of this issue. Any ideas?

Thanks!

• Marcelo.

[jdonaldson]

Hi Marcelo,

The issue might be the name of the file. Can you try to rename to Marcelo.hx? Let me know if that works....

[fullofcaffeine]

Works like a charm! Thanks!

However, I can see that if there's only one method in the class (highly unlikable to happen), the popup with the method signatures doesn't appear - it completes, but doesn't show the method signature. I wouldn't say it's a bug though, just an observation.

Cheers!

• Marcelo

On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Justin Donaldson wrote:

Hi Marcelo,
The issue might be the name of the file. Can you try to rename to Marcelo.hx? Let me know if that works....

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[jdonaldson]

You should be able to configure vim to behave this way. See:

:h completeopt

for a list of completion options. One of them, "menuone" will show the completion menu even if there's only a single completion option. There's another option "preview" that will pop up a new mini buffer with class/method documentation (if present), and the signature.

I'm not a fan of automatically opening the preview window for every completion. But, I do have a toggle that can enable or disable it:
https://github.com/jdonaldson/dotfiles/blob/f0ad277f741de575bf9d218b4ebbcfce961925d9/vimrc#L195
Occasionally, it's good to keep open the documentation for a complicated or long method signature.