Youcompleteme: Is there a way fix the size of completion menu in vim?

[ioeric]

Hi,

Is there a way to fix the size of the completion window to, for example, 10 items. Note that I would still like to get all completion items (e.g. more than 10) from ycmd completer (i.e. g:ycm_max_num_candidates wouldn't work) so that I can scroll the window to browse more items.

Thanks!

[puremourning]

There is no control over that in YCM.

If any such feature existed it would be a vim setting. Try reading :help ins-completion to see if there are options that work for you.

[micbou]

Already answered in https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/166, https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/173, and https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/1978. From CONTRIBUTING.md:

Further, search the issue tracker for similar issues before creating a new one. There's no point in duplication; if an existing issue addresses your problem, please comment there instead of creating a duplicate.

and the issue template:

I have searched YCM's issue tracker to find issues similar to the one I'm about to report and couldn't find an answer to my problem. (Example Google search.)

[ioeric]

Sorry about the duplicate! I should've spent more time searching the issue tracker.

[klosworks]

To anyone who has found this issue through google, the answer to OP's question is to insert
set pumheight=10
in your .vimrc.
This is indeed a general Vim option, described in
:help ins-completion-menu