AutoComplPop VS YouCompleteMe

For normal plugins like AuotoComplPop are also decent and provide a great beginner experience.

For my auto-comepltion system I have been using AutoComplPop which is perfect for me. Basically all this does is open the completion menu when I start typing.

I am currently trying to port something that I have used in vim for a very long time and love a lot over to emacs, but I am having a lot of trouble figuring out how. vim has, much like emacs, a built-in completion system which allows you to complete words using control + n/p. While researching what completion system I wanted in vim awhile ago I found a plugin called AutoCompPop which uses that built-in completion and simply opens up the built-in menu for navigating that completion every time you start typing. For me this is perfect, it allows me to have full extremely lightweight completion of everything in the current buffer without having to deal with a massive system like YouCompleteMe.

You have to install https://github.com/vim-scripts/AutoComplPop and

True, though in principle you could make it "automatic" by using AutoComplPop.

For vim specifically, I've been using coc.nvim, which works pretty well for my needs, and I know its quite popular. Another fairly popular one is YouCompleteMe, which I had taken a look at for some other languages; but ended up just using coc as I can't justify using YCM once a year (if that) -- too much "headache" for not a lot of use, you know?

YouCompleteMe. A pretty good autocompletion plugin, though vim does have its own, somewhat useful built-in auto completion that requires more keystrokes

There are plugins to do semantic highlighting. I don't use any of them because I'm satisfied with Vim's native syntax highlighting and with tree-sitter (and also because I don't use LSPs), but searching for "Vim semantic highlighting" on DuckDuckGo yields this: https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe. The highlighting used in its demo is too baroque for my taste, but looking at your VSCode screenshot, it looks like it would be right up your alley.

The plugin that is requiring Python3 is You Complete Me here is the link!! The Vundle link I was looking at is also in the body of my post.

I use vim for C++ coding, however it is a bit difficult to set up to make it productive. I use YouCompleteMe [0] for autocompletion, Vimspector [1] with the C++ plugin for debugging, ALE [2] for linting, along with a few other general plugins (such as NerdTREE for file view).

[0] https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe

[1] https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector

[2] https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

I didn't make a complete list of requirements :) This issue makes YCM uninteresting to me, so I've not dug too deep into it.

my favorite is YouCompleteMe.

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