No way to show menu when ghost_text enabled and auto_show disabled

[frangio]

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• I have updated to the latest version of blink.cmp
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Bug Description

If menu.auto_show is disabled and ghost_text is enabled there seems to be no way to manually pull up the completion menu. <C-Space> in the default keymap preset does nothing in this case.

Relevant configuration

keymap = { preset = 'default' },
completion = {
  ghost_text = { enabled = true },
  menu = { auto_show = false },
}

neovim version

NVIM v0.10.3 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068

blink.cmp version: branch, tag, or commit

v0.8.2

[jessevdp]

I can confirm this!

I too run a config with auto_show = false and recently played around with ghost text.

I can open the completion menu when there is no ghost text visible yet.. So just after entering insert mode but when I haven't typed anything yet.

But after there is a completion with ghost text I can no long trigger show.

I can cycle to other completions using select_next and _prev just fine. (So there are other completions available!).

[jessevdp]

It might be this:

blink.cmp/lua/blink/cmp/init.lua

Lines 41 to 42 in 8a092ce

	function cmp.show(opts)
	if cmp.is_visible() and not (opts and opts.providers) then return end

blink.cmp/lua/blink/cmp/init.lua

Lines 35 to 38 in 8a092ce

	function cmp.is_visible()
	return require('blink.cmp.completion.windows.menu').win:is_open()
	or require('blink.cmp.completion.windows.ghost_text').is_open()
	end

show() seems to have a guard clause that prevents it from being re-run if is_visible(). But is_visible() returns true when there is ghost text on the screen.

This was recently changed in 1006662. Also see the CHANGELOG for v0.8.0:

include ghost text in is_visible (1006662)

[Saghen]

Closed by #796