use Perl

• dictionary (Score:1)

  by depesz (7751)

  run: :help dictionary
  
  i think this is what you need.
  
  you might want to add this to your .vimrc:
  
  function! MyFileStartup()
          set complete-=k complete+=k
          if exists("b:current_syntax")
                  let &dictionary = substitute("~/.vim/dict/FT.dict", "FT", b:current_syntax, "")
          endif
  endfunction
  
  autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile * call MyFileStartup()
  
  with this - you can store per-filet
• Vim Hacking (Score:1)

  by wtgee (8104)

  I really did get a lot of of the Vim Hacking book, including how to do things like this: http://www.packtpub.com/Vim/book [packtpub.com]
• First guess: (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  :help completion

  And hey lookit. That gets you to insert.txt chapter 7, which is all about the completion feature.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    I think I didn't explain myself well. I don't care about the completion feature. I care about the little menu with completion possibilities that pops up in my editor [wikimedia.org]. I very much want to create my own menus and take actions based on user selection. For example, if someone types ',gt' (goto test), I'd like a pop up showing all tests which cover the current program and let the user scroll through the tests for the one they want.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      One easy avenue might be :help console-menus.

      The customary way is do what the explorer and quickfix features do, though: create a new window that binds a bunch of keys to special functions.
• I use an autocomplete plugin (Score:1)

  by Phred (5358)

  There is an autocomplete example in my vim presentation [redhotpenguin.com] that I gave to SF.pm. It might have some useful parts.