limelight.vim VS vim-mucomplete

F10: Toggles Limelight on or off.

In case you can't find anything that does the same there's https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim which could be adapted to give the same effect

This feels real similar in concept to limelight and goyo. Nice! 👍🏻

goyo and limelight are also really useful plugins that work well together to create a nice environment for writing.

Two years ago, I did nanowrimo in Vim with a whole suite of plugins:

- https://github.com/preservim/vim-pencil

- https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim.git

- https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim.git

- https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

It was fun, and the setup is almost identical to iA Writer which I appreciate. I even had it all on my phone with Termux!

Last year I just did it in Markdown in VSCode in "zen mode" which also worked pretty well. It was definitely easier to setup than Vim and had better highlighting of bold/italics/etc.

I can recommend Goyo and limelight together. Goyo hides lines further away and centers the text, limelight removes syntax highlighting from other paragraphs except the current one. So you have a simple, distraction free workspace

I guess goyo.vim + limelight.vim would help do the same. But at the end of the day, still means reaching for the mouse, dragging some borders around, etc.

If you like Goyo, you might like limelight, which does pretty much what you're looking for.

After having added ( set t_Co=256, as per https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim/issues/49 ) to my vimrc and sourcing it works now.

If you don't mind using tags instead, a lighter alternative would be to use MUcomplete with the following settings:

You can use the mucomplete plugin, with the following settings:

You can use mucomplete plugin with built-in vim command completion (suggested by @Fantastic_Cow7272) added to completion chain

If you have a LSP client providing an omnicomplete function (such as vim-lsp), you can use mucomplete to enable "completion as you type". That setup is both Vim and Neovim compatible! :)

MUcomplete?

I use the mucomplete plugin, which makes Vim's builtin completions feel more Sublime-like.

Thanks for the suggestion. This set me on the right track - nvim-cmp didn't integrate well with my other plugins, but I found a very similar plugin called vim-mucomplete. Works out of the box and is equally minimal. Can also be configured for compatibility with stuff like UltiSnips.

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

There's a plugin, vim-mucomplete, that is built around combining some of the Ctrl-X bindings with, of which there are many. I used mucomplete to learn what all the various functions do and then uninstalled it, because I found the individual bindings easier to remember.