Tip 113: Understand the Source of Keywords

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The Buffer List

triggered with <C-x><C-n>

References:

# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h compl-current

inspect the buffer list:

:ls!

Included Files

triggered with <C-x><C-i>

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# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h compl-keyword

tweak the 'include' setting for recognising more languages' directive

References:

# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h 'include'

Tag Files

triggered with <C-x><C-]>

References:

# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h compl-tag

Customizing the Generic Autocompletion

• Customize the list of places that are scanned by generic keyword completion using the 'complete' option.
• The default setting is:

  complete=.,w,b,u,t,i
  

• enable completion of words in the spelling dictionary by running:

  :set complete+=k
  

References:

# If you open the file in vim,
# then you can \"ayy@a the next line to execute the vim command: 
:h 'complete'