What's the "right" way to disable completion until I press ctrl-space?

[agriffis]

I'd like to disable autocompletion until I press a key. I don't mind if it's looking things up in the background, but I don't want stuff happening on the screen until I ask for it.

I'm trying this, but I'd love some confirmation that I'm on the right track:

      -- Don't show completion menu until I press ctrl-space.
      completion = {
        trigger = {
          show_on_keyword = false,
          show_on_trigger_character = false,
        }
      },

[Saghen]

completion.menu.auto_show = false would still request the completions in the background but won't show the menu until you open it explicitly. You might want to try ghost_text with this configuration fyi

[agriffis]

Oh, cool! If I want a quick way to accept the ghost text without opening the menu, is that possible? It looks like select_and_accept checks if the menu is open:

blink.cmp/lua/blink/cmp/init.lua

Lines 67 to 80 in c8e86a3

	function cmp.select_and_accept(opts)
	if not cmp.is_visible() then return end
	local completion_list = require('blink.cmp.completion.list')
	vim.schedule(
	function()
	completion_list.accept({
	index = completion_list.selected_item_idx or 1,
	callback = opts and opts.callback,
	})
	end
	)
	return true
	end

[agriffis]

I guess this works:

      keymap = {
        ['<Tab>'] = {
          function(cmp)
            local completion_list = require('blink.cmp.completion.list')
            vim.schedule(function()
              completion_list.accept {
                index = completion_list.selected_item_idx or 1,
              }
            end)
            return true
          end,
        },
      },

[Saghen]

Ah yep, I have a todo to check if ghost text is active in cmp.is_visible(). I'll try to remember to ping here when that's added :)

[Saghen]

Added a check for ghost text in 1006662