Tab autocomplete of extant words does not work

[reagle]

When I'm editing markdown files, I can't tab autocomplete on existing words in the document; I assume this should be possible. In my Preferences.sublime-settings I have:

    "auto_complete_commit_on_tab": true,
    "auto_complete_delay": 500,

In Markdown.sublime-settings I have:

    "auto_complete_selector": "source, text",

I assume text.html.markdown is within text, so I probably don't need this. And if I add text.html.markdown specifically, I still can't tab autocomplete. So this is probably a red herring.

I don't know if this is related to the old issue #128 .

ST4 4169, MDE 3.1.12

[reagle]

BTW: Installing AllAutocomplete seems to enable tab autocompletion in markdown files?!?

[deathaxe]

I don't see anything misbehaving, neither on my normal production setup nor on a clean ST4169 with only Package Control and MarkdownEditing installed. I am on Windows.

I tried to reproduce with a new unsaved MD view with "lorem ipsum" snippet inserted. Typing existing words auto-completes them on pressing tab as expected. Same with an existing README.md

You could enable command logging by executing sublime.log_commands() in ST's console to see which command is executed, when pressing tab.

With your settings, I see...

command: auto_complete {"commit_single": true, "default": "\t", "mini": true}
command: commit_completion

An autocomplete panel opens with various words from buffer, when hitting tab after a started word, with another tab completing with first selected item.

[reagle]

I just tried and I too can autocomplete on trivial test markdown files. I just tried to create a minimal defective example here: https://reagle.org/joseph/2024/rah/autocomplete-test.md . I suspect it has to do with YAML front matter; when it is present I'm not able to autocomplete the word "subreddit". In the log, I see lingo/sublime-fscompletion is being invoked. So, somehow, the YAML frontmatter confuses FSAutocompletion? That hasn't been updated in years, so I'll uninstall that for now.

>>> sublime.log_commands()
FSAutocompletion: get_view_cwd: folder found {'file_exclude_patterns': ['*.docx', '*.html', '*.mm', '*.pdf', '*.yaml', '*.zip', '*.zst'], 'name': 'Reddit advice history', 'path': '/Users/reagle/e/clear/data/2web/reagle.org/joseph/2024/rah'}
get_view_cwd: <function get_cwd_from_project at 0x1074ad2f0> => /Users/reagle/e/clear/data/2web/reagle.org/joseph/2024/rah

[deathaxe]

I also see those entries, but still everything works with your minimal example and sublime-fscompletion installed.

EDIT: It seems to interfere in case it thinks the word being completed is part of a folder or path. Maybe you have a folder named "Subreddits" or something along those lines in your project?

That's nothing MarkdownEditing can fix.

[reagle]

Huh. I feel like having MarkdownEditing, fscompletion, AllAutocomplete, and EnhanceSnippets is a precarious pile of completion plugins but having the four of them seems to work now, at least. I'll close this and return if I gain other insights.