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*youcompleteme.txt* YouCompleteMe: a code-completion engine for Vim
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-contents*
Contents ~
1. Introduction |youcompleteme-introduction|
2. Mac OS X super-quick installation |youcompleteme-mac-os-x-super-quick-installation|
3. Ubuntu Linux x64 super-quick installation |youcompleteme-ubuntu-linux-x64-super-quick-installation|
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4. Windows Installation |youcompleteme-windows-installation|
5. Full Installation Guide |youcompleteme-full-installation-guide|
6. User Guide |youcompleteme-user-guide|
1. General Usage |youcompleteme-general-usage|
2. Completion string ranking |youcompleteme-completion-string-ranking|
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3. General Semantic Completion Engine Usage |youcompleteme-general-semantic-completion-engine-usage|
4. C-family Semantic Completion Engine Usage |youcompleteme-c-family-semantic-completion-engine-usage|
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5. Python semantic completion |youcompleteme-python-semantic-completion|
6. Semantic completion for other languages |youcompleteme-semantic-completion-for-other-languages|
7. Writing New Semantic Completers |youcompleteme-writing-new-semantic-completers|
8. Syntastic integration |youcompleteme-syntastic-integration|
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7. Commands |youcompleteme-commands|
1. The |YcmForceCompileAndDiagnostics| command
2. The |YcmDiags| command
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3. The |YcmShowDetailedDiagnostic| command
4. The |YcmDebugInfo| command
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5. The |YcmCompleter| command
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8. YcmCompleter subcommands |youcompleteme-ycmcompleter-subcommands|
1. The |GoToDeclaration| subcommand
2. The |GoToDefinition| subcommand
3. The |GoToDefinitionElseDeclaration| subcommand
9. Options |youcompleteme-options|
1. The |g:ycm_min_num_of_chars_for_completion| option
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2. The |g:ycm_filetype_whitelist| option
3. The |g:ycm_filetype_blacklist| option
4. The |g:ycm_filetype_specific_completion_to_disable| option
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5. The |g:ycm_register_as_syntastic_checker| option
6. The |g:ycm_allow_changing_updatetime| option
7. The |g:ycm_complete_in_comments_and_strings| option
8. The |g:ycm_collect_identifiers_from_comments_and_strings| option
9. The |g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt| option
10. The |g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion| option
11. The |g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_insertion| option
12. The |g:ycm_max_diagnostics_to_display| option
13. The |g:ycm_key_list_select_completion| option
14. The |g:ycm_key_list_previous_completion| option
15. The |g:ycm_key_invoke_completion| option
16. The |g:ycm_key_detailed_diagnostics| option
17. The |g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf| option
18. The |g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf| option
19. The |g:ycm_extra_conf_globlist| option
20. The |g:ycm_semantic_triggers| option
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10. FAQ |youcompleteme-faq|
1. I get a linker warning regarding |libpython| on Mac when compiling YCM
2. I get a weird window at the top of my file when I use the semantic engine
3. It appears that YCM is not working
4. I cannot get the Syntastic integration to work
5. Sometimes it takes much longer to get semantic completions than normal
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6. Vim flickers every time I move the cursor or moving the cursor is slow
7. YCM auto-inserts completion strings I don't want!
8. I get a 'E227: mapping already exists for <blah>' error when I start Vim
9. I'm trying to use a Homebrew Vim with YCM and I'm getting segfaults
10. I have a Homebrew Python and/or MacVim; can't compile/SIGABRT when starting
11. Vim segfaults when I use the semantic completer in Ruby files
12. I get 'LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform' when compiling
13. I get 'Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV' on Vim startup
14. |CTRL-U| in insert mode does not work
15. Why isn't YCM just written in plain VimScript, FFS?
16. Why does YCM demand such a recent version of Vim?
17. I get annoying messages in Vim's status area when I type
18. Nasty bugs happen if I have the |vim-autoclose| plugin installed
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11. Contact |youcompleteme-contact|
12. License |youcompleteme-license|
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-introduction*
Introduction ~
YouCompleteMe is a fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion engine for
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Vim. It has several completion engines: an identifier-based engine that works
with every programming language, a semantic, Clang [1]-based engine that
provides native semantic code completion for C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++
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(from now on referred to as "the C-family languages"), a Jedi [2]-based
completion engine for Python and an omnifunc-based completer that uses data
from Vim's omnicomplete system to provide semantic completions for many other
languages (Ruby, PHP etc.).
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YouCompleteMe GIF demo, see reference [3]
Here's an explanation of what happens in the short GIF demo above.
First, realize that no keyboard shortcuts had to be pressed to get the list of
completion candidates at any point in the demo. The user just types and the
suggestions pop up by themselves. If the user doesn't find the completion
suggestions relevant and/or just wants to type, he can do so; the completion
engine will not interfere.
When the user sees a useful completion string being offered, he presses the
TAB key to accept it. This inserts the completion string. Repeated presses of
the TAB key cycle through the offered completions.
If the offered completions are not relevant enough, the user can continue
typing to further filter out unwanted completions.
A critical thing to notice is that the completion filtering is NOT based on
the input being a string prefix of the completion (but that works too). The
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input needs to be a subsequence [4] match of a completion. This is a fancy way
of saying that any input characters need to be present in a completion string
in the order in which they appear in the input. So 'abc' is a subsequence of
'xaybgc', but not of 'xbyxaxxc'. After the filter, a complicated sorting
system ranks the completion strings so that the most relevant ones rise to the
top of the menu (so you usually need to press TAB just once).
All of the above works with any programming language because of the
identifier-based completion engine. It collects all of the identifiers in the
current file and other files you visit and searches them when you type
(identifiers are put into per-filetype groups).
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The demo also shows the semantic engine in use. When the user presses '.',
'->' or '::' while typing in insert mode, the semantic engine is triggered (it
can also be triggered with a keyboard shortcut; see the rest of the docs).
The last thing that you can see in the demo is YCM's integration with
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Syntastic [5] (the little red X that shows up in the left gutter) if you are
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editing a C-family file. As Clang compiles your file and detects warnings or
errors, they will be piped to Syntastic for display. You don't need to save
your file or press any keyboard shortcut to trigger this, it "just happens" in
the background.
In essence, YCM obsoletes the following Vim plugins because it has all of
their features plus extra:
- clang_complete
- AutoComplPop
- Supertab
- neocomplcache
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YCM also provides semantic go-to-definition/declaration commands for C-family
languages. Expect more IDE features powered by the various YCM semantic
engines in the future.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-mac-os-x-super-quick-installation*
Mac OS X super-quick installation ~
Please refer to the full Installation Guide below; the following commands are
provided on a best-effort basis and may not work for you.
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Install the latest version of MacVim [6]. Yes, MacVim. And yes, the latest.
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If you don't use the MacVim GUI, it is recommended to use the Vim binary that
is inside the MacVim.app package ('MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim'). To ensure
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it works correctly copy the 'mvim' script from the MacVim [6] download to your
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local binary folder (for example '/usr/local/bin/mvim') and then symlink it:
>
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mvim vim
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Install YouCompleteMe with Vundle [7].
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Remember: YCM is a plugin with a compiled component. If you update YCM using
Vundle and the ycm_core library API has changed (happens rarely), YCM will
notify you to recompile it. You should then rerun the install process.
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It's recommended that you have the latest Xcode installed along with the
latest Command Line Tools (that you install from within Xcode).
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Install CMake. Preferably with Homebrew [8], but here's the stand-alone CMake
installer [9].
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If you have installed a Homebrew Python and/or Homebrew MacVim, see the FAQ
for details.
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Compiling YCM with semantic support for C-family languages:
>
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cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh --clang-completer
Compiling YCM without semantic support for C-family languages:
>
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cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh
That's it. You're done. Refer to the User Guide section on how to use YCM.
Don't forget that if you want the C-family semantic completion engine to work,
you will need to provide the compilation flags for your project to YCM. It's
all in the User Guide.
YCM comes with sane defaults for its options, but you still may want to take a
look at what's available for configuration. There are a few interesting
options that are conservatively turned off by default that you may want to
turn on.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-ubuntu-linux-x64-super-quick-installation*
Ubuntu Linux x64 super-quick installation ~
Please refer to the full Installation Guide below; the following commands are
provided on a best-effort basis and may not work for you.
Make sure you have Vim 7.3.584 with python2 support. At the time of writing,
the version of Vim shipping with Ubuntu is too old. You may need to compile
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Vim from source [10] (don't worry, it's easy).
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Install YouCompleteMe with Vundle [7].
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Remember: YCM is a plugin with a compiled component. If you update YCM using
Vundle and the ycm_core library API has changed (happens rarely), YCM will
notify you to recompile it. You should then rerun the install process.
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Install development tools and CMake: 'sudo apt-get install build-essential
cmake'
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Make sure you have Python headers installed: 'sudo apt-get install
python-dev'.
Compiling YCM with semantic support for C-family languages:
>
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cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh --clang-completer
Compiling YCM without semantic support for C-family languages:
>
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cd ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe
./install.sh
That's it. You're done. Refer to the User Guide section on how to use YCM.
Don't forget that if you want the C-family semantic completion engine to work,
you will need to provide the compilation flags for your project to YCM. It's
all in the User Guide.
YCM comes with sane defaults for its options, but you still may want to take a
look at what's available for configuration. There are a few interesting
options that are conservatively turned off by default that you may want to
turn on.
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===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-windows-installation*
Windows Installation ~
YCM has no official support for Windows, but that doesn't mean you can't get
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it to work there. See the Windows Installation Guide [11] wiki page. Feel free
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to add to it.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-full-installation-guide*
Full Installation Guide ~
These are the steps necessary to get YCM working on a Unix OS like Linux or
Mac OS X. My apologies to Windows users, but I don't have a guide for them.
The code is platform agnostic, so if everything is configured correctly, YCM
should work on Windows without issues (but as of writing, it's untested on
that platform).
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See the FAQ if you have any issues.
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Remember: YCM is a plugin with a compiled component. If you update YCM using
Vundle and the ycm_core library API has changed (happens rarely), YCM will
notify you to recompile it. You should then rerun the install process.
Please follow the instructions carefully. Read EVERY WORD.
- Ensure that your version of Vim is at least 7.3.584 and that it has support
for python2 scripting. Inside Vim, type ':version'. Look at the first two
to three lines of output; it should say 'Vi IMproved 7.3' and then below
that, 'Included patches: 1-X', where X will be some number. That number
needs to be 584 or higher. If your version of Vim is not recent enough, you
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may need to compile Vim from source [10] (don't worry, it's easy). After
you have made sure that you have Vim 7.3.584+, type the following in Vim:
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':echo has('python')'. The output should be 1. If it's 0, then get a
version of Vim with Python support.
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- Install YCM with Vundle [7] (or Pathogen [12], but Vundle is a better idea).
With Vundle, this would mean adding a 'Bundle 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe' line
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to your vimrc [13].
- [Complete this step ONLY if you care about semantic completion support for
C-family languages. Otherwise it's not neccessary.] Download the latest
version of 'libclang'. Clang is an open-source compiler that can compile
C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++. The 'libclang' library it provides is used
to power the YCM semantic completion engine for those languages. YCM needs
libclang version 3.2 or higher. You can use the system libclang only if you
are sure it is version 3.2 or higher, otherwise don't. Even if it is, I
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recommend using the official binaries from llvm.org [14] if at all
possible. Make sure you download the correct archive file for your OS.
- Compile the 'ycm_core' plugin plugin (ha!) that YCM needs. This is the C++
engine that YCM uses to get fast completions. You will need to have 'cmake'
installed in order to generate the required makefiles. Linux users can
install cmake with their package manager ('sudo apt-get install cmake' for
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Ubuntu) whereas other users can download and install [9] cmake from its
project site. Mac users can also get it through Homebrew [8] with 'brew
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install cmake'. You also need to make sure you have Python headers
installed. On a Debian-like Linux distro, this would be 'sudo apt-get
install python-dev'. On Mac they should already be present. Here we'll
assume you installed YCM with Vundle. That means that the top-level YCM
directory is in '~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe'. We'll create a new folder
where build files will be placed. Run the following: cd ~ mkdir ycm_build
cd ycm_build Now we need to generate the makefiles. If you DON'T care about
semantic support for C-family languages, run the following command in the
'ycm_build' directory: 'cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" . ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/cpp'
If you DO care about semantic support for C-family languages, then your
'cmake' call will be a bit more complicated. We'll assume you downloaded a
binary distribution of LLVM+Clang from llvm.org in step 3 and that you
extracted the archive file to folder '~/ycm_temp/llvm_root_dir' (with
'bin', 'lib', 'include' etc. folders right inside that folder). With that
in mind, run the following command in the 'ycm_build' directory: 'cmake -G
"Unix Makefiles" -DPATH_TO_LLVM_ROOT=~/ycm_temp/llvm_root_dir .
~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/cpp' Now that makefiles have been generated,
simply run 'make ycm_core'. For those who want to use the system version of
libclang, you would pass '-DUSE_SYSTEM_LIBCLANG=ON' to cmake instead of the
'-DPATH_TO_LLVM_ROOT=...' flag. You could also force the use of a custom
libclang library with '-DEXTERNAL_LIBCLANG_PATH=/path/to/libclang.so' flag
(the library would end with '.dylib' on a Mac). Again, this flag would be
used instead of the other flags.
- [Complete this step ONLY if you care about semantic completion support for
C-family languages. Otherwise it's not neccessary.] Copy the libclang
library file into the 'YouCompleteMe/python' folder. The library file is
'libclang.so' on Linux and 'libclang.dylib' on Mac. We'll assume you
downloaded a binary distribution of LLVM+Clang from llvm.org in step 3 and
that you extracted the archive file to folder '~/ycm_temp/llvm_root_dir'
(with 'bin', 'lib', 'include' etc. folders right inside that folder). We'll
also assume you installed YCM with Vundle. That means that the top-level
YCM directory is in '~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe'. On Linux, run: 'cp
~/ycm_temp/llvm_root_dir/lib/libclang.so ~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/python'
On Mac, run: 'cp ~/ycm_temp/llvm_root_dir/lib/libclang.dylib
~/.vim/bundle/YouCompleteMe/python' DO NOT FORGET THIS STEP. If you forget
to copy over 'libclang.so' version 3.2 into the 'YouCompleteMe/python'
folder then YCM will not work if you selected C-family support during YCM
compilation.
That's it. You're done. Refer to the User Guide section on how to use YCM.
Don't forget that if you want the C-family semantic completion engine to work,
you will need to provide the compilation flags for your project to YCM. It's
all in the User Guide.
YCM comes with sane defaults for its options, but you still may want to take a
look at what's available for configuration. There are a few interesting
options that are conservatively turned off by default that you may want to
turn on.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-user-guide*
User Guide ~
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-general-usage*
General Usage ~
- If the offered completions are too broad, keep typing characters; YCM will
continue refining the offered completions based on your input.
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- Filtering is "smart-case" sensitive; if you are typing only lowercase
letters, then it's case-insensitive. If your input involves uppercase
letters, then it's case-sensitive. So "foo" matches "Foo" and "foo", but
"Foo" matches "Foo" but not "foo".
- Use the TAB key to accept a completion and continue pressing TAB to cycle
through the completions. Use Shift-TAB to cycle backwards. Note that if
you're using console Vim (that is, not Gvim or MacVim) then it's likely
that the Shift-TAB binding will not work because the console will not pass
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it to Vim. You can remap the keys; see the Options section below.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-completion-string-ranking*
Completion string ranking ~
The subsequence filter removes any completions that do not match the input,
but then the sorting system kicks in. It's actually very complicated and uses
lots of factors, but suffice it to say that "word boundary" (WB) subsequence
character matches are "worth" more than non-WB matches. In effect, this means
given an input of "gua", the completion "getUserAccount" would be ranked
higher in the list than the "Fooguxa" completion (both of which are
subsequence matches). A word-boundary character are all capital characters,
characters preceded by an underscore and the first letter character in the
completion string.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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*youcompleteme-general-semantic-completion-engine-usage*
General Semantic Completion Engine Usage ~
- You can use Ctrl+Space to trigger the completion suggestions anywhere, even
without a string prefix. This is useful to see which top-level functions
are available for use.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-c-family-semantic-completion-engine-usage*
C-family Semantic Completion Engine Usage ~
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- You really also want to install the latest version of the Syntastic [5] Vim
plugin. It has support for YCM and together they will provide you with
compile errors/warnings practically instantly and without saving the file.
YCM looks for a '.ycm_extra_conf.py' file in the directory of the opened file
or in any directory above it in the hierarchy (recursively); when the file is
found, it is loaded (only once!) as a Python module. YCM calls a
'FlagsForFile' method in that module which should provide it with the
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information necessary to compile the current file. You can also provide a path
to a global '.ycm_extra_conf.py' file, which will be used as a fallback. To
prevent the execution of malicious code from a file you didn't write YCM will
ask you once per '.ycm_extra_conf.py' if it is safe to load. This can be
disabled and you can white-/blacklist files. See the Options section for more
details.
This system was designed this way so that the user can perform any arbitrary
sequence of operations to produce a list of compilation flags YCM should hand
to Clang.
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See YCM's own '.ycm_extra_conf.py' [15] for details on how this works. You
should be able to use it as a starting point. Don't just copy/paste that file
somewhere and expect things to magically work; your project needs different
flags. Hint: just replace the strings in the 'flags' variable with compilation
flags necessary for your project. That should be enough for 99% of projects.
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Yes, Clang's 'CompilationDatabase' system [16] is also supported. Again, see
the above linked example file.
If Clang encounters errors when compiling the header files that your file
includes, then it's probably going to take a long time to get completions.
When the completion menu finally appears, it's going to have a large number of
unrelated completion strings (type/function names that are not actually
members). This is because Clang fails to build a precompiled preamble for your
file if there are any errors in the included headers and that preamble is key
to getting fast completions.
Call the ':YcmDiags' command to see if any errors or warnings were detected in
your file. Even better, use Syntastic.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-python-semantic-completion*
Python semantic completion ~
YCM uses Jedi [2] to power its semantic completion for Python. This should
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"just work" without any configuration from the user. You do NOT need to
install Jedi yourself; YCM uses it as a git subrepo. If you're installing YCM
with Vundle (which is the recommended way) then Vundle will make sure that the
subrepo is checked out when you do ':BundleInstall'. If you're installing YCM
by hand, then you need to run 'git submodule update --init --recursive' when
you're checking out the YCM repository. That's it.
But again, installing YCM with Vundle takes care of all of this for you.
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In the future expect to see features like go-to-definition for Python as well.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-semantic-completion-for-other-languages*
Semantic completion for other languages ~
YCM will use your 'omnifunc' (see ':h omnifunc' in Vim) as a source for
semantic completions if it does not have a native semantic completion engine
for your file's filetype. Vim comes with okayish omnifuncs for various
languages like Ruby, PHP etc. It depends on the language.
You can get stellar omnifuncs for Java and Ruby with Eclim [17]. Just make
sure you have the latest Eclim installed and configured and don't forget to
have 'let g:EclimCompletionMethod = 'omnifunc' in your vimrc. This will make
YCM and Eclim play nice; YCM will use Eclim's omnifuncs as the data source for
semantic completions and provide the auto-triggering and subsequence-based
matching (and other YCM features) on top of it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-writing-new-semantic-completers*
Writing New Semantic Completers ~
You have two options here: writing an 'omnifunc' for Vim's omnicomplete system
that YCM will then use through its omni-completer, or a custom completer for
YCM using the Completer API [18].
Here are the differences between the two approaches:
- You have to use VimScript to write the omnifunc, but get to use Python to
write for the Completer API; this by itself should make you want to use the
API.
- The Completer API is a much more powerful way to integrate with YCM and it
provides a wider set of features. For instance, you can make your Completer
query your semantic back-end in an asynchronous fashion, thus not blocking
Vim's GUI thread while your completion system is processing stuff. This is
impossible with VimScript. All of YCM's completers use the Completer API.
- Performance with the Completer API is better since Python executes faster
than VimScript.
If you want to use the 'omnifunc' system, see the relevant Vim docs with ':h
complete-functions'. For the Completer API, see the API docs [18].
If you want to upstream your completer into YCM's source, you should use the
Completer API.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*youcompleteme-syntastic-integration*
Syntastic integration ~
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YCM has explicit support for Syntastic [5] (and vice-versa) if you compiled
YCM with Clang support; this means that any diagnostics (errors or warnings)
that Clang encounters while compiling your file will be fed back to Syntastic
for display.
YCM will recompile your file in the background 'updatetime' (see ':h
updatetime' in Vim) milliseconds after you stop typing (to be specific, on
'CursorHold' and 'CursorHoldI' Vim events). YCM will change your 'updatetime'
value to be '2000' milliseconds (there's an option to tell it not to do this
if you wish).
The new diagnostics (if any) will be fed back to Syntastic the next time you
press any key on the keyboard. So if you stop typing and just wait for the new
diagnostics to come in, that will not work. You need to press some key for the
GUI to update.
Having to press a key to get the updates is unfortunate, but cannot be changed
due to the way Vim internals operate; there is no way that a background task
can update Vim's GUI after it has finished running. You have to press a key.
This will make YCM check for any pending diagnostics updates.
You can force a full, blocking compilation cycle with the ':YcmForceCompileAndDiagnostics'
command (you may want to map that command to a key; try putting 'nnoremap <F5>
:YcmForceCompileAndDiagnostics<CR>' in your vimrc). Calling this command will
force YCM to immediately recompile your file and display any new diagnostics
it encounters. Do note that recompilation with this command may take a while
and during this time the Vim GUI will be blocked.
After the errors are displayed by Syntastic, it will display a short
diagnostic message when you move your cursor to the line with the error. You
can get a detailed diagnostic message with the '<leader>d' key mapping (can be
changed in the options) YCM provides when your cursor is on the line with the
diagnostic.
You can also see the full diagnostic message for all the diagnostics in the
current file in Vim's 'locationlist', which can be opened with the ':lopen'
and ':lclose' commands. A good way to toggle the display of the 'locationlist'
with a single key mapping is provided by another (very small) Vim plugin
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called ListToggle [19] (which also makes it possible to change the height of
the 'locationlist' window), also written by yours truly.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-commands*
Commands ~
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *YcmForceCompileAndDiagnostics* command
Calling this command will force YCM to immediately recompile your file and
display any new diagnostics it encounters. Do note that recompilation with
this command may take a while and during this time the Vim GUI will be
blocked.
You may want to map this command to a key; try putting 'nnoremap <F5>
:YcmForceCompileAndDiagnostics<CR>' in your vimrc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *YcmDiags* command
Calling this command will fill Vim's 'locationlist' with errors or warnings if
any were detected in your file and then open it.
A better option would be to use Syntastic which will keep your 'locationlist'
up to date automatically and will also show error/warning notifications in
Vim's gutter.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *YcmShowDetailedDiagnostic* command
This command shows the full diagnostic text when the user's cursor is on the
line with the diagnostic.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *YcmDebugInfo* command
This will print out various debug information for the current file. Useful to
see what compile commands will be used for the file if you're using the
semantic completion engine.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *YcmCompleter* command
This command can be used to invoke completer-specific commands. If the first
argument is of the form 'ft=...' the completer for that file type will be used
(for example 'ft=cpp'), else the native completer of the current buffer will
be used. Call |YcmCompleter| without further arguments for information about
the commands you can call for the selected completer.
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See the YcmCompleter subcommands section for more information on the available
subcommands.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-ycmcompleter-subcommands*
YcmCompleter subcommands ~
[See the docs for the |YcmCompleter| command before tackling this section.]
The invoked subcommand is automatically routed to the currently active
semantic completer, so ':YcmCompleter GoToDefinition' will invoke the
|GoToDefinition| subcommand on the Python semantic completer if the currently
active file is a Python one and on the Clang completer if the currently active
file is a C/C++/Objective-C one.
You may also want to map the subcommands to something less verbose; for
instance, 'nnoremap <leader>jd :YcmCompleter GoToDefinitionElseDeclaration<CR>'
maps the '<leader>jd' sequence to the longer subcommand invocation.
The various 'GoTo*' subcommands add entries to Vim's 'jumplist' so you can use
'CTRL-O' to jump back to where you where before invoking the command (and
'CTRL-I' to jump forward; see ':h jumplist' for details).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *GoToDeclaration* subcommand
Looks up the symbol under the cursor and jumps to its declaration.
Supported in filetypes: 'c, cpp, objc, objcpp'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *GoToDefinition* subcommand
Looks up the symbol under the cursor and jumps to its definition.
NOTE: For C-family languages this only works in certain situations, namely
when the definition of the symbol is in the current translation unit. A
translation unit consists of the file you are editing and all the files you
are including with '#include' directives (directly or indirectly) in that
file.
Supported in filetypes: 'c, cpp, objc, objcpp'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *GoToDefinitionElseDeclaration* subcommand
Looks up the symbol under the cursor and jumps to its definition if possible;
if the definition is not accessible from the current translation unit, jumps
to the symbol's declaration.
Supported in filetypes: 'c, cpp, objc, objcpp'
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-options*
Options ~
All options have reasonable defaults so if the plug-in works after
installation you don't need to change any options. These options can be
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configured in your vimrc script [13] by including a line like this:
>
let g:ycm_min_num_of_chars_for_completion = 1
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Note that after changing an option in your vimrc script [13] you have to
restart Vim for the changes to take effect.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_min_num_of_chars_for_completion* option
This option controls the number of characters the user needs to type before
completion suggestions are triggered. For example, if the option is set to
'2', then when the user types a second alphanumeric character after a
whitespace character, completion suggestions will be triggered.
Default: '2'
>
let g:ycm_min_num_of_chars_for_completion = 2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The *g:ycm_filetype_whitelist* option
This option controls for which Vim filetypes (see ':h filetype') should YCM be
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turned on. The option value should be a Vim dictionary with keys being
filetype strings (like 'python', 'cpp' etc) and values being unimportant (the
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dictionary is used like a hash set, meaning that only the keys matter).
The '*' key is special and matches all filetypes. By default, the whitelist
contains only this '*' key.
YCM also has a |g:ycm_filetype_blacklist| option that lists filetypes for
which YCM shouldn't be turned on. YCM will work only in filetypes that both
the whitelist and the blacklist allow (the blacklist "allows" a filetype by
not having it as a key).
For example, let's assume you want YCM to work in files with the 'cpp'
filetype. The filetype should then be present in the whitelist either directly
('cpp' key in the whitelist) or indirectly through the special '*' key. It
should not be present in the blacklist.
Filetypes that are blocked by the either of the lists will be completely
ignored by YCM, meaning that neither the identifier-based completion engine
nor the semantic engine will operate in them.
You can get the filetype of the current file in Vim with ':set ft?'.
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Default: '{'*' : 1}'
>
let g:ycm_filetype_whitelist = { '*': 1 }
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_filetype_blacklist* option
This option controls for which Vim filetypes (see ':h filetype') should YCM be
turned off. The option value should be a Vim dictionary with keys being
filetype strings (like 'python', 'cpp' etc) and values being unimportant (the
dictionary is used like a hash set, meaning that only the keys matter).
See the |g:ycm_filetype_whitelist| option for more details on how this works.
Default: '{'notes': 1, 'markdown': 1, 'text': 1}'
>
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let g:ycm_filetype_blacklist = {
\ 'notes' : 1,
\ 'markdown' : 1,
\ 'text' : 1,
\}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_filetype_specific_completion_to_disable* option
This option controls for which Vim filetypes (see ':h filetype') should the
YCM semantic completion engine be turned off. The option value should be a Vim
dictionary with keys being filetype strings (like 'python', 'cpp' etc) and
values being unimportant (the dictionary is used like a hash set, meaning that
only the keys matter). The listed filetypes will be ignored by the YCM
semantic completion engine, but the identifier-based completion engine will
still trigger in files of those filetypes.
Note that even if semantic completion is not turned off for a specific
filetype, you will not get semantic completion if the semantic engine does not
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support that filetype.
You can get the filetype of the current file in Vim with ':set ft?'.
Default: '{}'
>
let g:ycm_filetype_specific_completion_to_disable = {}
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_register_as_syntastic_checker* option
When set, this option makes YCM register itself as the Syntastic checker for
the 'c', 'cpp', 'objc' and 'objcpp' filetypes. This enables the YCM-Syntastic
integration.
If you're using YCM's identifier completer in C-family languages but cannot
use the clang-based semantic completer for those languages and want to use the
GCC Syntastic checkers, unset this option.
Don't unset this option unless you're sure you know what you're doing.
Default: '1'
>
let g:ycm_register_as_syntastic_checker = 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_allow_changing_updatetime* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM will change the 'updatetime' Vim option to
'2000' (see ':h updatetime'). This may conflict with some other plugins you
have (but it's unlikely). The 'updatetime' option is the number of
milliseconds that have to pass before Vim's 'CursorHold' (see ':h CursorHold')
event fires. YCM runs the completion engines' "file comprehension" systems in
the background on every such event; the identifier-based engine collects the
identifiers whereas the semantic engine compiles the file to build an AST.
The Vim default of '4000' for 'updatetime' is a bit long, so YCM reduces this.
Set this option to '0' to force YCM to leave your 'updatetime' setting alone.
Default: '1'
>
let g:ycm_allow_changing_updatetime = 1
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_complete_in_comments_and_strings* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM will show the completion menu even when
typing inside strings and comments.
Default: '0'
>
let g:ycm_complete_in_comments_and_strings = 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_collect_identifiers_from_comments_and_strings* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM's identifier completer will also collect
identifiers from strings and comments. Otherwise, the text in comments and
strings will be ignored.
Default: '0'
>
let g:ycm_collect_identifiers_from_comments_and_strings = 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM will add the 'preview' string to Vim's
'completeopt' option (see ':h completeopt'). If your 'completeopt' option
already has 'preview' set, there will be no effect. You can see the current
state of your 'completeopt' setting with ':set completeopt?' (yes, the
question mark is important).
When 'preview' is present in 'completeopt', YCM will use the 'preview' window
at the top of the file to store detailed information about the current
completion candidate (but only if the candidate came from the semantic
engine). For instance, it would show the full function prototype and all the
function overloads in the window if the current completion is a function name.
Default: '0'
>
let g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt = 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM will auto-close the 'preview' window after
the user accepts the offered completion string. If there is no 'preview'
window triggered because there is no 'preview' string in 'completeopt', this
option is irrelevant. See the |g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt| option for
more details.
Default: '0'
>
let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion = 0
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_insertion* option
When this option is set to '1', YCM will auto-close the 'preview' window after
the user leaves insert mode. This option is irrelevant if
|g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion| is set or if no 'preview'
window is triggered. See the |g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt| option for
more details.
Default: '0'
>
let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_insertion = 0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_max_diagnostics_to_display* option
This option controls the maximum number of diagnostics shown to the user when
errors or warnings are detected in the file. This option is only relevant if
you are using the semantic completion engine and have installed the version of
the Syntastic plugin that supports YCM.
Default: '30'
>
let g:ycm_max_diagnostics_to_display = 30
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The *g:ycm_key_list_select_completion* option
This option controls the key mappings used to select the first completion
string. Invoking any of them repeatedly cycles forward through the completion
list.
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Some users like adding '<Enter>' to this list.
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Default: '['<TAB>', '<Down>']'
>
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let g:ycm_key_list_select_completion = ['<TAB>', '<Down>']
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The *g:ycm_key_list_previous_completion* option
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This option controls the key mappings used to select the previous completion
string. Invoking any of them repeatedly cycles backwards through the
completion list.
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Note that one of the defaults is '<S-TAB>' which means Shift-TAB. That mapping
will probably only work in GUI Vim (Gvim or MacVim) and not in plain console
Vim because the terminal usually does not forward modifier key combinations to
Vim.
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Default: '['<S-TAB>', '<Up>']'
>
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let g:ycm_key_list_previous_completion = ['<S-TAB>', '<Up>']
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_key_invoke_completion* option
This option controls the key mapping used to invoke the completion menu for
semantic completion. By default, semantic completion is trigged automatically
after typing '.', '->' and '::' in insert mode (if semantic completion support
has been compiled in). This key mapping can be used to trigger semantic
completion anywhere. Useful for searching for top-level functions and classes.
Note that the default of '<C-Space>' means Ctrl-Space. Also note that the
default mapping will probably only work in GUI Vim (Gvim or MacVim) and not in
plain console Vim because the terminal usually does not forward modifier key
combinations to Vim.
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Setting this option to an empty string will make sure no mapping is created.
Default: '<C-Space>'
>
let g:ycm_key_invoke_completion = '<C-Space>'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_key_detailed_diagnostics* option
This option controls the key mapping used to show the full diagnostic text
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when the user's cursor is on the line with the diagnostic. It basically calls
':YcmShowDetailedDiagnostic'.
Setting this option to an empty string will make sure no mapping is created.
Default: '<leader>d'
>
let g:ycm_key_detailed_diagnostics = '<leader>d'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf* option
Normally, YCM searches for a '.ycm_extra_conf.py' file for compilation flags
(see the User Guide for more details on how this works). This option specifies
a fallback path to a config file which is used if no '.ycm_extra_conf.py' is
found.
You can place such a global file anywhere in your filesystem.
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Default: ''
>
let g:ycm_global_ycm_extra_conf = ''
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf* option
When this option is set to '1' YCM will ask once per '.ycm_extra_conf.py' file
if it is safe to be loaded. This is to prevent execution of malicious code
from a '.ycm_extra_conf.py' file you didn't write.
Default: '1'
>
let g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf = 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_extra_conf_globlist* option
This option is a list that may contain several globbing patterns. If a pattern
starts with a '!' all '.ycm_extra_conf.py' files matching that pattern will be
blacklisted, that is they won't be loaded and no confirmation dialog will be
shown. If a pattern does not start with a '!' all files matching that pattern
will be whitelisted. Note that this option is not used when confirmation is
disabled using |g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf| and that items earlier in the list
will take precedence over the later ones.
Rules:
- '*' matches everything
- '?' matches any single character
- '[seq]' matches any character in seq
- '[!seq]' matches any char not in seq
Example:
>
let g:ycm_extra_conf_globlist = ['~/dev/*','!~/*']
- The first rule will match everything contained in the '~/dev' directory so
'.ycm_extra_conf.py' files from there will be loaded.
- The second rule will match everything in the home directory so a
'.ycm_extra_conf.py' file from there won't be loaded.
- As the first rule takes precedence everything in the home directory
excluding the '~/dev' directory will be blacklisted.
Default: '[]'
>
let g:ycm_extra_conf_globlist = []
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The *g:ycm_semantic_triggers* option
This option controls the character-based triggers for the various semantic
completion engines. The option holds a dictionary of key-values, where the
keys are Vim's filetype strings delimited by commas and values are lists of
strings, where the strings are the triggers.
A "trigger" is a sequence of one or more characters that trigger semantic
completion when typed. For instance, C++ ('cpp' filetype) has '.' listed as a
trigger. So when the user types 'foo.', the semantic engine will trigger and
serve 'foo''s list of member functions and variables. Since C++ also has '->'
listed as a trigger, the same thing would happen when the user typed 'foo->'.
Default: '[see next line]'
>
let g:ycm_semantic_triggers = {
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\ 'c' : ['->', '.'],
\ 'objc' : ['->', '.'],
\ 'cpp,objcpp' : ['->', '.', '::'],
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\ 'perl' : ['->'],
\ 'php' : ['->', '::'],
\ 'cs,java,javascript,d,vim,ruby,python,perl6,scala,vb,elixir,go' : ['.'],
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\ 'lua' : ['.', ':'],
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\ 'erlang' : [':'],
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\ }
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===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-faq*
FAQ ~
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get a linker warning regarding *libpython* on Mac when compiling YCM
If the warning is 'ld: warning: path '/usr/lib/libpython2.7.dylib' following
-L not a directory', then feel free to ignore it; it's caused by a limitation
of CMake and is not an issue. Everything should still work fine.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get a weird window at the top of my file when I use the semantic engine ~
This is Vim's 'preview' window. Vim uses it to show you extra information
about something if such information is available. YCM provides Vim with such
extra information. For instance, when you select a function in the completion
list, the 'preview' window will hold that function's prototype and the
prototypes of any overloads of the function. It will stay there after you
select the completion so that you can use the information about the parameters
and their types to write the function call.
If you would like this window to auto-close after you select a completion
string, set the |g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion| option to
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'1' in your 'vimrc' file. Similarly, the |g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_insertion|
option can be set to close the 'preview' window after leaving insert mode.
If you don't want this window to ever show up, add 'set completeopt-=preview'
to your 'vimrc'. Also make sure that the |g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt|
option is set to '0'.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It appears that YCM is not working ~
In Vim, run ':messages' and carefully read the output. YCM will echo messages
to the message log if it encounters problems. It's likely you misconfigured
something and YCM is complaining about it.
Also, you may want to run the ':YcmDebugInfo' command; it will make YCM spew
out various debugging information, including the compile flags for the file if
the file is a C-family language file and you have compiled in Clang support.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I cannot get the Syntastic integration to work ~
Try to update your version of Syntastic. At the time of writing (Jan 2013),
the YCM integration is very recent and it's likely that your version of
Syntastic does not have it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes it takes much longer to get semantic completions than normal ~
This means that libclang (which YCM uses for C-family semantic completion)
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failed to pre-compile your file's preamble. In other words, there was an error
compiling some of the source code you pulled in through your header files. I
suggest calling the ':YcmDiags' command to see what they were (even better,
have Syntastic installed and call ':lopen').
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Bottom line, if libclang can't pre-compile your file's preamble because there
were errors in it, you're going to get slow completions because there's no AST
cache.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vim flickers every time I move the cursor or moving the cursor is slow ~
You probably have an old version of Syntastic installed. If you are using
Vundle, make sure that your bundle command is 'Bundle 'scrooloose/syntastic'
and not'Bundle 'Syntastic'. The first command pulls in the latest version of
Syntastic from GitHub while the second one pulls in an old version from
vim.org.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
YCM auto-inserts completion strings I don't want! ~
This means you probably have some mappings that interfere with YCM's internal
ones. Make sure you don't have something mapped to '<C-p>', '<C-x>' or '<C-u>'
(in insert mode).
YCM never selects something for you; it just shows you a menu and the user has
to explicitly select something. If something is being selected automatically,
this means there's a bug or a misconfiguration somewhere.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get a 'E227: mapping already exists for <blah>' error when I start Vim ~
This means that YCM tried to set up a key mapping but failed because you
already had something mapped to that key combination. The '<blah>' part of the
message will tell you what was the key combination that failed.
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Look in the Options section and see if which of the default mappings conflict
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with your own. Then change that option value to something else so that the
conflict goes away.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm trying to use a Homebrew Vim with YCM and I'm getting segfaults ~
Something (I don't know what) is wrong with the way that Homebrew configures
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and builds Vim. I recommend using MacVim [6]. Even if you don't like the
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MacVim GUI, you can use the Vim binary that is inside the MacVim.app package
(it's 'MacVim.app/Contents/MacOS/Vim') and get the Vim console experience.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have a Homebrew Python and/or MacVim; can't compile/SIGABRT when starting ~
You should probably run 'brew rm python; brew install python' to get the
latest fixes that should make YCM work with such a configuration. Also rebuild
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Macvim then. If you still get problems with this, see issue #18 [20] for
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suggestions.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vim segfaults when I use the semantic completer in Ruby files ~
This was caused by a Vim bug. Update your version of Vim (Vim 7.3.874 is known
to work, earlier versions may also fix this issue).
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get 'LONG_BIT definition appears wrong for platform' when compiling ~
Look at the output of your CMake call. There should be a line in it like the
following (with '.dylib' in place of '.so' on a Mac):
'-- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so (Required is at least version
"2.5")'
That would be the correct output. An example of incorrect output would be the
following:
'-- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so (found suitable version
"2.5.1", minimum required is "2.5")'
Notice how there's an extra bit of output there, the 'found suitable version
"<version>"' part, where '<version>' is not the same as the version of the
dynamic library. In the example shown, the library is version 2.7 but the
second string is version '2.5.1'.
This means that CMake found one version of Python headers and a different
version for the library. This is wrong. It can happen when you have multiple
versions of Python installed on your machine.
You should probably add the following flags to your cmake call (again, 'dylib'
instead of 'so' on a Mac):
'-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python2.7 -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so'
This will force the paths to the Python include directory and the Python
library to use. You may need to set these flags to something else, but you
need to make sure you use the same version of Python that your Vim binary is
built against, which is highly likely to be the system's default Python.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I get 'Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV' on Vim startup ~
This can happen on some Linux distros. If you encounter this situation, run
Vim under 'gdb'. You'll probably see something like this in the output when
Vim crashes:
'undefined symbol: clang_CompileCommands_dispose'
This means that Vim is trying to load a 'libclang.so' that is too old. You
need at least a 3.2 libclang. Some distros ship with a system 'libclang.so'
that identifies itself as 3.2 but is not; it was cut from the upstream sources
before the official 3.2 release and some API changes (like the addition of the
CompileCommands API) were added after their cut.
So just go through the installation guide and make sure you are using a
correct 'libclang.so'. I recommend downloading prebuilt binaries from
llvm.org.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*CTRL-U* in insert mode does not work
YCM keeps you in a 'completefunc' completion mode when you're typing in insert
mode and Vim disables '<C-U>' in completion mode as a "feature." Sadly there's
nothing I can do about this.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Why isn't YCM just written in plain VimScript, FFS? ~
Because of the identifier completion engine and subsequence-based filtering.
Let's say you have many dozens of files open in a single Vim instance (I often
do); the identifier-based engine then needs to store thousands (if not tens of
thousands) of identifiers in its internal data-structures. When the user
types, YCM needs to perform subsequence-based filtering on all of those
identifiers (every single one!) in less than 10 milliseconds.
I'm sorry, but that level of performance is just plain impossible to achieve
with VimScript. I've tried, and the language is just too slow. No, you can't
get acceptable performance even if you limit yourself to just the identifiers
in the current file and simple prefix-based fitering.
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Why does YCM demand such a recent version of Vim? ~
During YCM's development several show-stopper bugs where encountered in Vim.
Those needed to be fixed upstream (and were). A few months after those bugs
were fixed, Vim trunk landed the 'pyeval()' function which improved YCM
performance even more since less time was spent serializing and deserializing
data between Vim and the embedded Python interpreter. A few critical bugfixes
for 'pyeval()' landed in Vim 7.3.584 (and a few commits before that).
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I get annoying messages in Vim's status area when I type ~
If you're referring to the 'User defined completion <bla bla> back at
original' and similar, then sadly there's no fix for those. Vim will emit them
no matter how hard I try to silence them.
You'll have to learn to ignore them. It's a shitty "solution", I know.
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Nasty bugs happen if I have the *vim-autoclose* plugin installed
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Use the delimitMate [21] plugin instead. It does the same thing without
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conflicting with YCM.
===============================================================================
*youcompleteme-contact*
Contact ~
If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please use the issue
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tracker [22]. The latest version is available at http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe/.
The author's homepage is http://val.markovic.io.
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*youcompleteme-license*
License ~
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This software is licensed under the GPL v3 license [23]. Copyright 2012
Strahinja Val Markovic <val@markovic.io>.
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*youcompleteme-references*
References ~
[1] http://clang.llvm.org/
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[2] https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi
[3] http://i.imgur.com/0OP4ood.gif
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequence
[5] https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
[6] http://code.google.com/p/macvim/#Download
[7] https://github.com/gmarik/vundle#about
[8] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
[9] http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
[10] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-from-source
[11] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Windows-Installation-Guide
[12] https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen#pathogenvim
[13] http://vimhelp.appspot.com/starting.txt.html#vimrc
[14] http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.2
[15] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/blob/master/cpp/ycm/.ycm_extra_conf.py
[16] http://clang.llvm.org/docs/JSONCompilationDatabase.html
[17] http://eclim.org/
[18] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/blob/master/python/completers/completer.py
[19] https://github.com/Valloric/ListToggle
[20] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/18
[21] https://github.com/Raimondi/delimitMate
[22] https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues?state=open
[23] http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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