Please allow the autocomplete popup box to execute the first suggestion with an "ret" press

[effinsky]

Hello -- seems like a simple quality of life change for those who, like I, are used to going up and down popups with j and k or and and accepting options with a press of "ret". This goes for navigating menus in general but I have personally found it a bit jarring to be unable to do this. If possible, please add :)

[the-mikedavis]

This behavior was removed in #1704. If ret accepts the first item in the completion menu, you can't insert newlines while the completion menu is open. This makes editing very unpredictable for some languages.

I think the ideal way to fix this might be to allow menu keybindings to be configurable.

[effinsky]

Absolutely -- I wouldn't say even make this default if folks don't want that. Perhaps just include a config option. In my bvim cmp opt I just have this little bit. Never had trouble with this combination:

[mnpqraven]

I second this, having a way to automatically choose the first autocomplete option would be a great boon to people who were already using that function in neovim. But if ret becomes problematic as a default, how about enabling picker commands as normal commands so people can bind them in the config for example:

[key.insert]
C-o = ["next_entry", "select_entry"]

This way you would be able to select the first autocomplete when hitting Ctrl O

[pascalkuthe]

We actually went the other way here. You can select the first item by just hitting tab once (or c-n) at that point you can just keep typing.

I don't see us adding a soecical config flag or similar. If you want a different mapping you have to wait for #5505