Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 113

Work with the Autocomplete Pop-Up Menu

To get the most from the autocomplete command, learn how to interact with the pop-up menu. Either refine the choices and then pick an item, or dismiss the list if it doesn’t contain what you want.

When autocomplete is triggered, Vim draws a pop-up menu containing the items in the word list. We can interact with this menu using the commands shown in Table 19, ​Commands for the Pop-Up Menu​.

Table 19. Commands for the Pop-Up Menu

Keystrokes	Effect
<C-n>	Use the next match from the word list (next match)
<C-p>	Use the previous match from the word list (previous match)
<Down>	Select the next match from the word list
<Up>	Select the previous match from the word list
<C-y>	Accept the currently selected match ( ...