blink.cmp and mini.completion

[mau-mauricelim]

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Module(s)

mini.completion

Question

My issue is documented here Saghen/blink.cmp#949

From mini.completion docs, I think it uses some sort of (neovim default?) fallback completion.
I love both plugins out of the box. But can't seem to enable both at the same time.

Would it be possible to add mini.completion as some sort of source for blink.cmp?

[echasnovski]

Enabling both 'mini.completion' and 'blink.cmp' is a bad idea: they both provide autocompletion functionalities which will conflict with one another.

What you're seeing as "words from another buffer/file" are indeed words from all loaded buffers (probably, only listed buffers, to be precise) and come from built-in Neovim (and Vim) completion. See :h i_CTRL-N. It is a highly built-in feature which doesn't have a good way of utilizing it other than actually simulating pressing <C-n>. It is also blocking/synchronous which has noticeable lagging when there is a very large buffer opened (like 10K - 100K lines depending on the machine).

The best way for 'blink.cmp' to support this kind of completion is through its own implementation as a different source.

[mau-mauricelim]

Thank you for the explanation!