Seeding identifiers with syntax removes the Vim information screen

[Gergely Kalmár]

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Issue Details

• What did you do?

I have enabled the g:ycm_seed_identifiers_with_syntax option and started vim.

• What did you expect to happen?

Seeing the usual information page with the version and other information.

• What actually happened?

The information page appeared for a moment then disappeared.

[Ben Jackson]

I cannot repro this as described and you have not provided steps to reproduce or the full issue template.

en@BenMBP2021 YouCompleteMe % git diff !$
git diff vimrc_ycm_minimal
diff --git a/vimrc_ycm_minimal b/vimrc_ycm_minimal
index 14934285..c74ebc07 100644
--- a/vimrc_ycm_minimal
+++ b/vimrc_ycm_minimal
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ let g:ycm_log_level = 'debug'
 " If the base settings don't repro, paste your existing config for YCM only,
 " here:
 " let g:ycm_....
+let g:ycm_seed_identifiers_with_syntax=1

 " Load YCM (only)
 let &rtp .= ',' . expand( '<sfile>:p:h' )
ben@BenMBP2021 YouCompleteMe %

• vim -Nu vimrc_ycm_minimal

Does not show the issue.

[Gergely Kalmár]

Yes, because you also need to enable YCM for the file type that vim opens with. If you add this diff to the minimal vimrc it should reproduce:

let g:ycm_seed_identifiers_with_syntax=1
let g:ycm_filetype_whitelist = {'*': 1, 'ycm_nofiletype': 1}

[Ben Jackson]

I can repro, thanks.

[Ben Jackson]

PR #4156 should resolve this, though I'm in 2 minds about changing this. it just seems so minor, and the change is a bit risky.

[Gergely Kalmár]

I partly agree, still, I decided I'd rather turn the option off than lose the splash screen for now. If it didn't appear at all, it would be maybe more bearable, but now it just shows up for a spit second and then disappears, which always confuses my brain.

In a perfect world we have both the functionality and the splash screen :).

[Ben Jackson]

You could just turn off completion in ycm_nofiletype; this is a rare and unusual configuration with limited uses.

[Gergely Kalmár]

Somehow it happens relatively often that I edit a file without an extension/known filetype, so it's quite useful to me. In any case, thank you very much for the help and for deploying the fix! Seems to work perfectly.