[mini.completion] possible to disable inserting on selection?

[abenz1267]

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Hi,

does anyone know if it's possible to disable inserting on selection of an item? I only want something inserted on enter.

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[echasnovski]

In theory should be possible, but I don't think it is a good user experience. The current default behavior of 'mini.completion' is explicitly designed to be as little in the way of user typing as possible by trying to not require explicit item accept.

Probably using something like this should work:

• Make sure that 'noselect' flag is part of 'completeopt' option (it is added by default during require('mini.completion').setup() if 'completeopt' is not set by user before that).
• Navigate through candidates with arrows: <Down> and <Up>. These don't affect buffer text. The downside is that they can't be remapped to <C-n> and <C-p> (Cannot remap <C-N> and <C-P> when popupmenu is visible vim/vim#16880), so probably would have to use something else. For example, 'mini.basics' can map them to <M-j> and <M-k>).
• Accept item explicitly. A built-in key for that is <C-y> (as for "yes"), but it can be partially remapped to <CR> when popup is visible. Can be done with a single expression mapping, but a more robust approach is to use 'mini.keymap'.

Hope this helps.