Completion: C-k not working consistently

[cpaulik]

C-j and C-k are bound to select completion candidates. But after the company quickhelp window popped up C-k is no longer working correctly. It is only producing ^K in the buffer.

Disabling company-quickhelp is a partial workaround but the same problem happens after pressing C-d to get to the documentation.

company-mode/company-quickhelp#17 suggested a possible solution of putting the keybindings into the company-completion-finished/cancelled/started-hook's but this did not work for me.

[nixmaniack]

This works pretty fine with me in hybrid state.

(evil-define-key 'hybrid company-active-map (kbd "C-j") 'company-select-next)
(evil-define-key 'hybrid company-active-map (kbd "C-k") 'company-select-previous)

[StreakyCobra]

@nixmaniack With company-quickhelp-mode activated?

[nixmaniack]

@StreakyCobra I have auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip set to t which activates company-quickhelp-mode if I'm not wrong. So yes.
A point to be noted, I've only used this with hybrid style though.

[StreakyCobra]

Ok, so it may be a clue about the bug :-)

[al3xandru]

Updating this ticket with what I've learned on #5817:

1. company-quickhelp-mode seems to be on (value is t). Is this enabled by setting auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip?
2. if auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip is nil then C-k seems to work as expected.
3. based on the above, after setting the following, C-k continues to behave as expected:

(evil-define-key 'insert company-quickhelp-mode-map (kbd "C-k") 'company-select-previous)

[abcdw]

@al3xandru thanks for workaround.

[d12frosted]

Fixed with released of Spacemacs v0.200. Let us know if you still have any problems with this issue.

[cmlaverdiere]

Still happens to me.

[abcdw]

@d12frosted Reopen this issue plz.

[eullerborges]

Seconding @cmlaverdiere, still happens to me. Even after the fix suggested by @al3xandru after waiting about a second without making a choice (although I can navigate upwards when there's no wait).

Edit: It starts to fail when the documentation popup shows, which takes a little while (about a second, which I described above). Also, spacemacs often crashes after inserting ^K

[malchmih]

@eullerborges @cmlaverdiere @abcdw Workaround mentioned here works for me: company-mode/company-quickhelp#63 (comment)

  (add-hook
   'company-completion-started-hook
   (lambda (&rest ignore)
     (when evil-mode
       (when (evil-insert-state-p)
         (define-key evil-insert-state-map (kbd "C-k") nil)))))

[eullerborges]

@malchmih Works like a charm. Thanks a lot.
I'm having problems with spacemacs crashing with SIGSEV (somehow related to auto-complete and anaconda), but I get not output in the terminal I've launched it from. Do you know of any ways to log the crash info?

[sdwolfz]

See this link on how to debug segmentation faults:

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/wiki/Debugging#debugging-segmentation-faults-with-gdb

[FieryCod]

@TheBB Are there any plans to include @malchmih suggestion to the develop branch? This issue definitely should be reopened.

[richarddewit]

Spongebob's narrator: "One Year Later"

While the workaround by @malchmih works, this is still an issue in the latest develop (commit b00767c)

[sdwolfz]

If somebody opens a PR with it then we can merge it. We have more active maintaiers now so it should not take long.

[smile13241324]

Merged the fix from duianto on develop just now. @cpaulik would you mind checking that this solves the issue for you and close it when it does?

On my system it solved the issue in emacs and python mode.

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