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[niksingh710]

for some reason if i type my cmp highlights the selection in the middle of the list.

what i want is that it should not select any of the entry by default at all and if i press control l it should just select the top completion or if i manully scroll any entry the pressing control l selects that

[andreykaipov]

Had the same issue. Setting preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None got the intended behaviour.

[andreykaipov]

Oh sorry it's one of the top-level keys on setup:

cmp.setup({
    preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None
    mapping = cmp.mapping.preset.insert({
        ...
    })
})

[itaranto]

Do you know the reason why this isn't the default?

I've just wasted several hours trying to fix this until I found this discussion.

The docs say:

  `cmp.PreselectMode`

  1. `cmp.PreselectMode.Item`
    nvim-cmp will preselect the item that the source specified.
  2. `cmp.PreselectMode.None`
    nvim-cmp will not preselect any items.

I wonder what "will preselect the item that the source specified." means. I don't see any further documentation about this and seems to be a pretty big deal.

[itaranto]

Oh, ignore my previous comment.

I don't actually think this actually fixes OP's question, or at least why I think he asked first.

He asked why the selection is on the middle of the list.

This is also happening to me, LSP is preselected always regardless of priority.

[niksingh710]

My selection is still in the middle of the list.
When I marked it as an answer, it happened to be a coincidence that the choices were at the top.

[itaranto]

Yes, but cmp.PreselectMode.None actually makes no completion is selected by default, so it's kind of a bad way of fixing the problem.

Ideally the first entry on the list should be pre-selected.

[fitrh]

There was an issue for gopls about preselect completion, so in addition to setting preselect to cmp.PreselectMode.None, you also need to set completion.completeopt to noselect

cmp.setup({
  preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None,
  completion = {
    completeopt = 'menu,menuone,noselect',
  },
})

If you want to avoid LSP preselect but stil want the vim preselect feature, you can set your completeopt without noselect

cmp.setup({
  preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None,
  completion = {
    completeopt = 'menu,menuone,preview',
  },
})

[fitrh]

I have used this config (without preselect) for years with gopls without an issue, and this is with vim preselect enabled

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[itaranto]

OK, that works.

I didn't know about the LSP preselect feature.

Also, it seems I need to set completeopt through nvim-cmp otherwise it doesn't work.

I mean, vim.opt.completeopt = 'menu,menuone,preview' doesn't work but completion.completeopt = ... does.

[fitrh]

Also, it seems I need to set completeopt through nvim-cmp otherwise it doesn't work.

That's right, you need to use cmp completion.completeopt

[fitrh]

@niksingh710 let me know if you still have the issue after this, also, in my experience, this is only happens with gopls

[niksingh710]

@fitrh yep I have noticed that this only happens in go, not in other languages.