vim omnicomplete vs. vim intellisense

c++ intellisense vim omnicomplete
Robert S. Barnes picture Robert S. Barnes · Feb 16, 2010 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

Are Vim OmniComplete and Vim Intellisense mutually exclusive or complementary? I'm a bit confused by conflicting terminology and implementations, such as these C++ OmniComplete and C++ Intellisence plugins.

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McPherrinM picture McPherrinM · Feb 16, 2010

Vim Omnicomplete is a feature of Vim version 7, on all platforms. Vim Intellisense is a plugin for vim 6.1 and 6.2 on Windows only.

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