I followed your lead below, and got somewhere. Typed, `have' and got the following message:
Dictionary completion (^K^N^P) match 1 of 6 but no visual menu of choice. I could scroll through the 6 choices by using ctrl-N or ctrl-N. I wonder what options are needed to actually see the menu or list, as you did? I am running vim 7.0.237 in conole mode (no gui) with these features: Features included (+) or not (-): +arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent +clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments+cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic+emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path+folding -footer +fork() +gettext - hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu+mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm-mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme- netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra +perl +postscript +printer +profile+python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent-sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static-tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace+wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim +xsmp_interact+xterm_clipboard - xterm_save On Feb 29, 10:43 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-02-29, howard Schwartz wrote: > On a system running Ubuntu 10.04 and using Vim 7.3.434 that I built > myself as a "Normal version with GTK2 GUI", I started Vim as > > vim -N -u NONE -c 'set dictionary=/usr/share/dict/words' > > to avoid loading any customizations. I then typed 'i' to enter > insert mode, typed 'have' and then Ctrl-X Ctrl-K. The result was a > text-mode pop-up window below my word 'have' that looked like this: > > have /usr/share/dict/words > haven /usr/share/dict/words > havens /usr/share/dict/words > haversack /usr/share/dict/words > haversacks /usr/share/dict/words > haves /usr/share/dict/words > > See if that much works for you and we'll go from there to get it > working for you with your normal configuration. > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
