Lexical autocomplete

[dead10ck]

Describe your feature request

According to comments in #901, autocomplete has no native implementation and relies solely on LSP. A consequence of this is that when the user has no LSP installed, or one doesn't exist for the file type you are editing, there is no autocomplete at all.

It would be nice if there was a built-in autocomplete that is based purely on the tokens in the current document, without any language awareness.

[raphCode]

I would find this useful too, for writing text / LaTeX documents!

[kirawi]

Related #1015

[debajyoti1990]

Could anybody please provide the latest status on this FR ?

[dead10ck]

Could anybody please provide the latest status on this FR ?

"It is not done"

[estin]

Currently exists two PRs, they can be helpful on waiting this feature

• 4816

• 3328 (weekly syncing with master)

  AFAIK PRs above would't merged in, but I'm hope about "core team" would implement this feature in best choice.

[metafates]

I've made a simple proof-of-concept LSP that performs autocompletion for the words found in the current buffer. You can find it here https://github.com/metafates/buffer-language-server

[estin]

@metafates nice! Take a look to my solution too https://github.com/estin/simple-completion-language-server

[nandoflorestan]

This is a very important missing feature.

[Kurt-Shiwz]

I found this https://github.com/estin/simple-completion-language-server. It use multi language server to completion.

[kirawi]

In addition to what was said in https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/3328#issuecomment-1559031060, I think if there were someone interested in implementing this, it might be a good idea to register it as a hook for the event system which should relatively compartmentalize the code from the rest of Helix.