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I often use VIM auto-complete (CTRL+N\P) facility, it recognizes enums or defines (string based I guess) that are only in the set of current open files. In order to overcome this, I usually open a header file that contain all the enums\defines in a new tab, and then the auto-complete has all the values.

I wonder if there were a way to include this file in the default set of files that vim looks in when it searches for the auto-complete.

Thanks.

romainl · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-19 20:18:44Z

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With the default value of the complete option, <C-n> and <C-p> should complete using your include files. You may wish to adjust the path option, though (see :help 'path').

You can also use the following command to tell Vim to use /path/to/file as a dictionary completion source:

:set complete+=k/path/to/file

See :help 'complete'.

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answered Jan 19, 2014 at 9:34

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Nadav Over a year ago

Thanks romainl, that was exactly what I needed. Nadav.

benjifisher · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-20 02:45:48Z

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Also consider the 'include' option. Assuming that 'complete' includes the i flag (which is part of the default), vim will automatically search included files. The default value of 'include' recognizes C-style include statements:

#include "foo.h"

If you are editing some other language, then you may want to choose a different setting, probably in an ftplugin file.

:help 'complete'
:help 'include'
:help 'path'

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