airline breaks completion preview menu

[jamescasbon]

The same problem with powerline as well... powerline/powerline#286

[bling]

seems to work fine over here. can you try set splitbelow and see if that makes a difference? failing that, add let g:airline_exclude_preview=1 to your vimrc.

[jamescasbon]

Neither splitbelow or airline_exclude_preview help.

I had to use let g:jedi#auto_vim_configuration = 0 with completeopt-=preview

How can I get a preview easily in non python to test if it is jedi's fault?

[bling]

this depends on a variety of factors....whether you're using YCM, neocomplete, neocomplcache, supertab, etc. maybe try python-mode with rope instead of jedi?

[bling]

and also worth checking if it's just vim bug...try setting the statusline to a long string and see if it gets overwritten.

[jamescasbon]

long statusline does not reproduce bug with airline disabled.

same problem occurs with python-mode.

[bling]

i just pulled your vimrc from your profile and i can't repro. can you give me more detailed steps? what version of vim you're using, what hot keys you're using, etc.

[jamescasbon]

Looks like it might be the ubuntu vim powerline/powerline#523

That's what I am using right now.

[jamescasbon]

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Apr  2 2013 09:18:18)
Included patches: 1-547
Modified by [email protected]
Compiled by buildd@
Huge version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent 
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments 
+conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff 
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+file_in_path +find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() +gettext 
-hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall 
+linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname 
+mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm 
-mouse_sysmouse +mouse_xterm +mouse_urxvt +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme 
+netbeans_intg +path_extra +perl +persistent_undo +postscript +printer +profile
 +python -python3 +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs 
+smartindent -sniff +startuptime +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary 
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white +tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title
 +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo 
+vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 -xfontset +xim 
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save 
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz     -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1     -I/usr/include/tcl8.5  -D_REENTRANT=1  -D_THREAD_SAFE=1  -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1  
Linking: gcc   -L. -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic  -Wl,-E  -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -o vim   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lSM -lICE -lXpm -lXt -lX11 -lXdmcp -lSM -lICE -lm -ltinfo -lnsl  -lselinux  -lacl -lattr -lgpm -ldl  -L/usr/lib -llua5.1  -Wl,-E  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl/5.14/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt -L/usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/lib -lpthread -ldl  -lutil -lm  -lpython2.7 -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -ltcl8.5 -ldl -lpthread -lieee -lm -lruby-1.9.1 -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm  -L/usr/lib   

[bling]

assuming you're on ubuntu raring, you're running vim with patches up to 547, which is over a year old. try the 7.4 beta that was just released.

[bling]

i was able to reproduce on vim-429. i'm pretty sure this was fixed within vim some time ago. try the latest version and let me know if it still persists.

[jamescasbon]

Thanks, fixed in 918 that I got from this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~nmi/+archive/vim-snapshots

Maybe add a warning or something?

[bling]

added entry into the faq.