auto_show = false only for cmdline?

[Julian]

Is there a way to disable auto_show only for cmdline completion?

In particular it's quite annoying to me to not be able to use history navigation (up / down arrows) without dismissing the completion -- the behavior I want is that up/down do what they normally do in command mode (scroll backwards through history), and that that change only if I hit tab to complete something.

Anyone know if that's configurable at the minute?

[quebn]

i want something similar too, in my case i want the cmdline completion to not show unless i press tab.

[edr3x]

@Julian if you want to disable the cmdline itself then

    opts = {
        sources = {
            cmdline = {
                enabled = false,
            },
        },
    }

[Julian]

I don't want to disable it entirely ideally. Though I'm finding quite a few other issues with it so I'm close to reconsidering (which isn't surprising, I found nvim-cmp's command line completion also not very usable). But the original point of the question was to keep it on. Thanks for the info though.

[richin13]

I found this recipe in the docs: Don't show completion menu automatically in cmdline mode

completion = { 
  menu = { auto_show = function(ctx) return ctx.mode ~= 'cmdline' end }
}

[Julian]

Nice! That definitely looks relevant. I've since disabled command line completion but will give it a shot, thanks for the pointer.