View and insert possible completions in the editor while typing
Note: In the example above, Show Suggestions On Keystroke is enabled.
- APM:
apm install autocomplete-plus - Preferences: Open Atom and go to
Preferences > Packages, search forautocomplete-plus, and install it
autocomplete+ has a powerful autocomplete provider API, allowing provider authors to add language-specific behavior to this package.
You should definitely install additional providers (the default provider bundled with this package is somewhat crude): https://github.com/atom-community/autocomplete-plus/wiki/Autocomplete-Providers
Just type some stuff, and autocomplete+ will automatically show you some suggestions.
Press UP and DOWN to select another suggestion, press TAB to confirm your selection. You can change the default keymap in Preferences:
- Keymap For Confirming A Suggestion
- Keymap For Navigating The Suggestion List
Additionally, the keymap can be customized in your keymap.cson:
'atom-text-editor:not(mini).autocomplete-active':
'tab': 'unset!'
'enter': 'autocomplete-plus:confirm'
'up': 'unset!'
'down': 'unset!'
'ctrl-p': 'autocomplete-plus:select-previous'
'ctrl-n': 'autocomplete-plus:select-next'- Shows suggestions while typing
- Includes a default provider (
FuzzyProvider):- Wordlist generation happens when you open a file, while editing the file, and on save
- Suggestions are calculated using
fuzzaldrin
- Exposes a provider API which can be used to extend the functionality of the package and provide targeted / contextually correct suggestions
- Disable autocomplete for file(s) via blacklisting
- Disable autocomplete for editor scope(s) via blacklisting
Great autocomplete depends on having great autocomplete providers. If there is not already a great provider for the language / grammar that you are working in, please consider creating a provider.
Read the Provider API documentation to learn how to create a new autocomplete provider.