YouCompleteMe VS VimCompletesMe

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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At this point I think it’s better to just fork VimCompletesMe and have it run automatically instead of having to hit Tab.

I also used to use Coc separately for auto-completion, which worked flawlessly. Recently I have been moving away from auto-completion in general. I now use VimCompletesMe (https://github.com/ackyshake/VimCompletesMe) and the built in omnicompletion with .

There are plugins that may improve this experience for you, like supertab, vimcompletesme, or vim-mucomplete. You can find more completion plugins here.

VimCompletesMe

For lightweight autocompletion I can also recommend https://github.com/ackyshake/VimCompletesMe

VimCompletesMe is recommended by the fine folks at the vim freenode channel, and it's what I started using as of today.

Another option is https://github.com/ackyshake/VimCompletesMe, it is pretty light weight and can be configured to use Omni complete with .

Not much to add to the existing comment, but if you like the builtin autocompletion, then you might also like https://github.com/ackyshake/VimCompletesMe.