How to cancel autocomplete prompt?

[thelibrarian]

Hi,

When Zed offers an autocomplete in a pop-up (i.e. not the Copilot suggestion), is there a command or hotkey to dismiss this? I've found that there are times when the suggestions are irrelevant, spurious, or simply quicker to type the keyword than to select it from the selection box.

A concrete example: when I fully type the end keyword in Ruby, the first autocomplete option is Encoding, and the end autocomplete is option 5 or 6, even though I've already typed the full word.

The only way that I have so far found to dismiss this pop-up is to press Esc, but this also takes me out of Insert Mode. Is there another command/hotkey that would dismiss this popup without also exiting insert mode?

[baldwindavid]

A concrete example: when I fully type the end keyword in Ruby, the first autocomplete option is Encoding, and the end autocomplete is option 5 or 6, even though I've already typed the full word.

Cases like this where I want to press enter were very problematic. This happens because of these keymap defaults...

  {
    "context": "Editor && showing_completions",
    "bindings": {
      "enter": "editor::ConfirmCompletion",
      "tab": "editor::ConfirmCompletion"
    }
  },

To each their own in terms of confirming completion, but I definitely don't want both enter and tab doing so and added a keybinding to override for enter.

  {
    "context": "Editor && showing_completions",
    "bindings": {
      "enter": "editor::Newline"
    }
  }

there are times when the suggestions are irrelevant, spurious, or simply quicker to type the keyword than to select it from the selection box.

I haven't really had a need to solve for canceling the completion otherwise as I can just keep typing on the same line and ignoring the completion suggestions. There's probably a way to override the escape keymap though I don't see an editor::CancelCompletion and menu::Cancel seemed to changed to normal mode with a quick test. I'm thinking that even if the completion is canceled it's just going to show up upon the next character typed, but there might be more nuance to it.

[thelibrarian]

Thank you, this fixed my problem - removing the "enter" binding from the confirm completion and adding the newline binding now effectively does what I need. When I type enter, it now goes to the next line as I want, and effectively cancels the completion, which is actually better then what I requested - no extra key press needed to cancel the completion.

[willdhorn]

There's probably a way to override the escape keymap though I don't see an editor::CancelCompletion and menu::Cancel seemed to changed to normal mode with a quick test

You can use editor::Cancel instead of menu::Cancel to hide the completions without exiting insert mode. So if you still wanted to use escape as well you could do

{
	"context": "Editor && showing_completions",
	"bindings": {
	  "enter": "editor::Newline",
	  "escape": "editor::Cancel"
	}
}

[bminde]

shift-enter gives you a new line without accepting.

[edhemphill]

I can't seem to disable tab as an option for code completion using this pattern. I have this slapped into keymap.json:

// from the command palette.
[
  {
    "context": "Editor && showing_completions",
    "bindings": {
      "enter": "editor::Newline",
      "tab": "editor::Tab",
      "shift-enter": "editor::ConfirmCompletion"
    }
  },
  {
    "context": "Editor",
    "bindings": {
 ...

I must be doing something wrong... perhaps things have changed since a few months ago?

[numist]

A bit of looking around suggests that showing_completions is now called inline_completion? That seemed to work for me, at least.