vim -- Ctrl + N -- disable recursive header search

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When working on C++ code, I often like to press Ctrl+N to complete current word in edit mode. However, Ctrl+N starts searching recursively in header files. Our code-base is fairly huge, so such search takes several seconds to complete. I'm used to different behavior, when Ctrl+N completes using words in open tabs, and doesn't do extensive recursive search. How do I enable this behavior?

Accepted Answer

This behavior depends on the value of `'complete'`. Read `:h 'complete'` for the full list of values. You probably want to remove `i` from the default value:

```
set complete-=i
```

vim -- Ctrl + N -- disable recursive header search

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