Overly-Agressive Auto-Completion

[Syntonica]

I only occasionally use auto-complete when I'm stuck on a symbol name or method name, so I turn it off. I thought <C-x> would enable it just for the one instance, but apparently, it toggles it on and there's windows flying everywhere. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I'd like completion-on-demand as an option.

Also, another vote for trees. File trees, symbol trees, etc. Netrw-style is fine. Fuzzy search is fine for some use cases, but not all.

Other than these two things, Helix is a very nice editor as it is. Well done!

[kirawi]

You can disable it in editor.auto-complete, and can bind a key to completion (ctrl-x by default). There's a PR for file trees: #2377

[Syntonica]

First off, I forget Github likes to swallow anything remotely code-like. I'm still getting my sea-legs here. I fixed my OP.

I did indeed disable auto-complete and used <C-x>, but that just seems to turn it back on fully. I'm not Rusty at all, so I'm not wont to file a bug report unless I'm sure it's a bug. If hx was written in a C-family language, I'd probably go fix it, bug or not.

[the-mikedavis]

There was a bug fixed after the 22.12 release about this: #5042. The lsp.auto-complete option turned off autocompletion from the idle timeout but not from triggers (typing a comma for example).

[Syntonica]

Thanks! That's great news. I'll wait for the next release.

(Note to self: check closed issues as well as open...)