vim word completion navigating with 'j' and 'k'
See :h
popupmenu-keys
.
There is no special set of mappings for the popup menu sub-mode, but you can make a conditional insert-mode mapping:
inoremap <expr> j pumvisible() ? "\<C-N>" : "j"
inoremap <expr> k pumvisible() ? "\<C-P>" : "k"
This makes j
/k
navigate the popup menu like <C-N>
/<C-P>
, while it is visible.
Addendum: If you want to be able to hold in control while you type j
and k
, you can replace them with <C-J>
and <C-K>
, respectively. (See mwcz's comment to this answer.)
I don't know of a way how to do it with j and k. You're in insert mode, they don't work.
But, I have another way for you, Ctrl+N works the same as Tab, and you can use Shift-Tab to go down the list and Tab to go up. It's easier than using the arrow keys. But not as nice as j and k would be.
Or you can just use Ctrl+N and Ctrl+P