Automatically triggered in command mode

[yyy33]

Hi, I'm writing a command history source that ideally displays all history entries when the user enters the command line interface without requiring the user to type anything, and I'm not able to do that with the current configuration.

[soifou]

Why do you need to display all these entries without typing anything?

The role of a source is to provide completion candidates, it should not decide when the completion menu appears. That behavior is managed upstream and can be customized through user configuration. If you want to display your history entries immediately, you'll need to trigger the completion manually or start typing to activate it.

[yyy33]

Why do you need to display all these entries without typing anything?

Because I want the user to see a history of the few most used commands as soon as they open the command line, and then enter the filtering

[yyy33]

trigger the completion manually

How am I supposed to do that?

[soifou]

By manually I was refering to bind a keymap like:

keymap = {
   -- ...
   ['<C-e>'] = { 'hide', 'show', 'fallback' },
},

For your usecase, you could use an autocommand:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd('CmdlineEnter', {
  callback = vim.schedule_wrap(function() 
    require('blink.cmp').show() 
  end),
})

But again, IMO this behavior should be opt-in.

[yyy33]

But again, IMO this behavior should be opt-in.

Yes, I guess I should have provided an option to set that behavior, thanks for the help!