Is there a built-in way to close the completion menu when I'm typing and open it when I stop typing?

[heygarrett]

I'm trying to split the difference between autocompletion and manual completion. I don't want to see the completion menu if I know what I want to type. But if I stop to think, I'd then want the completion menu to appear.

If it makes any difference I'm using view = { entries = "native" } in my config, but that's not a hard requirement.

[gegoune]

You could disable auto completion and call it from cursor hold auto command maybe?

[heygarrett]

Thanks for the suggestion! I tried playing around with this as well as vim.defer_fn alongside a TextChangedP autocmd to close the completion menu:

local group = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("nvim-cmp", { clear = true })
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("TextChangedP", {
	group = group,
	callback = function() cmp.close() end,
})
vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("CursorHoldI", {
	group = group,
	callback = function() cmp.complete() end,
})

But for some reason the completion menu closes on its own as soon as it opens. 🤔