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DATE: 2021-11-30
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
I used to use ncm2[1] for autocompletion in neovim[2], then I switched to coc.nvim[3] for a short time, but found it awkward to maintain. Recently I set up nvim-cmp[4], which uses neovim's built-in language server client to source external language servers for different languages.
I use auto-completion fairly sparingly, but I do find it incredibly useful for two main things: completing file paths, and suggesting snippets from Ultisnips[5]. I also sometimes use language auto-completion when writing R. Possibly in the future I'd also like to use auto-completion for writing LaTeX, Javascript, Julia and CSS, but for now I've just set up the language server for R.
The R language server is installed by running install.packages("languageserver") in R. I use the Nvim-R[6] vim plugin to turn neovim into something more like a full IDE. Nvim-R provides syntax highlighting for R code, allows interaction with an open R repl either in a tmux split or a nvim terminal buffer, among many other features. I use radian[7] to provide a smarter R repl.
To set up nvim-cmp I largely followed the example configuration provided in the nvim-cmp README.md, but I've added an extra bit at the end to disable buffer word completion in file types which normally contain prose. I've pasted the config below for Nvim-R, Ultisnips, and nvim-cmp.
I wish I understood a bit better what the different bits of lua code actually do (e.g. the calls to cmp.setup.cmdline), but I found the online documentation to be quite lacking.
" Plugins
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' " Snippets
Plug 'jalvesaq/Nvim-R'
Plug 'neovim/nvim-lspconfig'
Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-nvim-lsp'
Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-path'
Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-buffer'
Plug 'hrsh7th/cmp-cmdline'
Plug 'hrsh7th/nvim-cmp'
Plug 'quangnguyen30192/cmp-nvim-ultisnips'
call plug#end()
" nvim-cmp
set completeopt=menuone,noselect
lua <<EOF
local cmp = require'cmp'
-- Setup nvim-cmp
cmp.setup({
-- Specify snippet engine
snippet = {
expand = function(args)
vim.fn["UltiSnips#Anon"](args.body)
end,
},
-- Keybindings
mapping = {
['<C-n>'] = cmp.mapping.select_next_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Insert }),
['<C-p>'] = cmp.mapping.select_prev_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Insert }),
['<Down>'] = cmp.mapping.select_next_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Select }),
['<Up>'] = cmp.mapping.select_prev_item({ behavior = cmp.SelectBehavior.Select }),
['<CR>'] = cmp.mapping.confirm({ select = true }),
},
-- Define completion sources
sources = cmp.config.sources({
{ name = 'nvim_lsp' },
{ name = 'ultisnips' },
{ name = 'buffer' },
{ name = 'path' },
})
})
cmp.setup.cmdline('/', {
sources = {
{ name = 'buffer' }
}
})
cmp.setup.cmdline(':', {
sources = cmp.config.sources({
{ name = 'path' }
}, {
{ name = 'cmdline' }
})
})
-- Setup lspconfig
local capabilities = require('cmp_nvim_lsp').update_capabilities(vim.lsp.protocol.make_client_capabilities())
-- R language server options
require('lspconfig')['r_language_server'].setup {
cmd = { "R", "--slave", "-e", "languageserver::run()" },
filetypes = { "r", "rmd" }
}
EOF
" Only enable minimal completion in files containing prose
autocmd FileType markdown,tex,txt lua require'cmp'.setup.buffer {
\ sources = {
\ { name = 'path' },
\ { name = 'ultisnips' },
\ },
\ }
" Nvim-R
let R_external_term = 0
let R_source = '~/.vim/tmux_split.vim'
let R_assign = 0
let R_objbr_place = 'BOTTOM'
let R_objbr_h = 30
let R_min_editor_width = 80
let R_objbr_opendf = 0
let r_indent_comment_column = 0
let r_indent_align_args = 0
let r_indent_ess_comments = 0
let r_indent_ess_compatible = 0
let R_non_r_compl = 0
let R_rmdchunk = 0
let R_rnowebchunk = 0
let R_app = "radian"
let R_cmd = "R"
let R_hl_term = 0
let R_args = []
let R_bracketed_paste = 1
nmap <LocalLeader><Enter> <Plug>RDSendLine
vmap <LocalLeader><Enter> <Plug>REDSendSelection
" Ultisnips
let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<tab>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<c-l>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<c-h>"
let g:UltiSnipsEditSplit="vertical"
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=[$HOME.'/.vim/Ultisnips']
I spent about 3 days trying to work with nvim-cmp, but I found that if I had more than two R scripts open in separate nvim instances, the fans on my MacBook Pro would start going crazy and htop showed the CPU maxed out. For me that’s not good enough, and I can get by with the built-in completion provided by Ctrl-x Ctrl-f / ctrl-o etc. So that’s a bit disappointing, and I’m not sure whether it will ever get better. I see that nvim v0.60 has just been released, but reading through the release notes I see no improvements to LSP support. As an uninformed user it's difficult to know if the bottleneck is nvim-cmp, the R language server, or nvim.
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