VIM extension Omni Completion can handle nicely the task when programming using C, but I’m not used to such “technology”: ctags + glancing headers files sounds fine to me, until now, when Qt and it’s classes with tons of attributes and methods came to my life. Today I was trying to remember a method name of a QSomething class and I had the brilliant idea to use VIM auto-completion. So disappointing, I just figured out that there is no native C++ support in Omni Completion.

The Oracle told me about a OmniCppComplete add-on. It took me just few minutes to install and see how cool the plugin is. The automatic “suggestions pop-up” is annoying, but happily you can disable and use on-demand with the old and good ^X^O.

Of course there is nothing new here (first OmniCpp version dates from 2006), but you may be like me and be a bit afraid of waste time testing new VIM add-ons, because most of then are crappy hacks. Only few deserves the honor to be in my .vimrc. So, this is all about encouraging VIM users to give OmniCpp a try and be more effective.

OmniCppComplete in action