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shawncplus / phpcomplete.vim

Improved PHP omnicompletion
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3171
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View the builtin function reference in preview pane #86

Closed gezpage closed 8 years ago

gezpage commented 8 years ago

Really great work on this plugin guys, makes Vim so much better when working with PHP.

So I've been trying to find out how I can view the built in PHP functions (https://github.com/shawncplus/phpcomplete.vim/blob/master/misc/builtin.vim) inside a preview / scratch window. This would be very useful for checking function call parameters instead of going to php.net.

Currently I can use omni completion to show matches on built in php functions, and the currently selected match is shown in the preview pane (type preg_ then <c-x><c-o> for example), great. However if there's only one match it will simply complete it and show "The only match" in the status line, the preview window will not appear so I can't see the function reference.

I've tried doing :ptag strpos but it just says tag not found, as it's not in the tags file. There appears to be no way of doing a lookup in the builtin functions that come with phpcomplete.

Any help with this would be fantastic.

Thanks!

complex857 commented 8 years ago

I think you are looking for the menuone option for the completeopt setting. This should make the preview window and menu show up even if you have only one match. So something like this: https://asciinema.org/a/5v536a2aaqw01q21pnmmp66wn (Side note: the demonstration probably unnecessary, but i really adore this asciinema project :D).

Check out this project too: https://github.com/vim-scripts/phpmanual Full manual page transfers to vim docs pages on the built-on shift+k bindings.

gezpage commented 8 years ago

Hey thanks for this, works a treat. Also the phpmanual plugin is a good find, I had been looking for something similar, and up to date, and this even includes PHP 7 functions.

Cheers!