Easy ways to experience speedy technical writing with Neovim

Introduction

Since, in my experience, writing technical research papers is a challenging task, I always try to use a writing environment that effectively supports my endeavors. If I am writing a paper in Neovim, then I now often use deoplete.nvim complete the words that I am writing in my paper.

Unlike other completion engines for Vim and Neovim, deoplete.nvim is flexible in its capability to perform completion from a wide variety of sources. In addition to being able to complete a word from a current buffer or a tags file, you can configure it to use tmux-complete.vim so that it will complete words that are evident in any of your terminals controlled by tmux. Finally, as a technical writer, you might want to have word completion from a dictionary by using neco-look.

Completion

There’s one additional thing that you might want to configure if you are using Neovim and deoplete.nvim! If you are accustomed to using the <TAB> key to perform completion, then you might want to install supertab and the include the following code in your initialization file.

let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = "<C-n>"
inoremap <expr><TAB>  pumvisible() ? "\<C-n>" : "\<TAB>"

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