Re: Dictionary Completion of Capitalized Words

On 2022-03-04, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > Typing part of a word, then using Ctrl-X Ctrl-K to complete the word
> > from entries in a dictionary works fine as long as the word (not
> > a proper noun) is all lower case. But when a word that is lower
> > case in the dictionary is capitalized when typed, as at the start of
> > a sentence or in a title, completion from the dictionary fails.
> >
> > Is there a way to have Ctrl-X Ctrl-K complete a capitalized word
> > even though it is not capitalized in the dictionary?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > cornu<C-X><C-K> expands to cornucopia (or cornucopias), but
> > Cornu<C-X><C-K> results in E486 Pattern not found.
> >
> > I'm using Vim 8.2.4127 in a terminal on Linux.
>
> You can set 'ignorecase' to find matches. It's not clever though, it
> will then remove the capital letter.

That's an improvement over what I had been doing. Thank you.

I always have 'ignorecase' set, but I also have 'smartcase' set.
I know the following has limitations, but it helps. I'll have to
see if it interferes too much with other completions.

au InsertEnter * set nosmartcase
au InsertLeave * set smartcase

Regards,
Gary

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