How to disable nvim-cmp for command mode wildmenu?

[mildred]

Hi,

I'm having a hard time understanding how to configure the command-line completion and I wish to disable nvim-cmp for the command mode (when completing commands like :e).

When running nvim --clean here is what I can do:

• :e /usr/ <Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab> it completes to /usr/local
• <Down> it enters the /usr/local directory and suggest completions for /usr/local/bin/
• <Up> it suggest completions for /usr/local/ back again

When running with nvim-cmp with no explicit mapping on arrow keys but a mapping on Tab as follows

    ['<Tab>'] = function(fallback)
      if cmp.visible() then
        cmp.select_next_item()
        cmp.mapping.complete()
      else
        fallback()
      end
    end,

When trying to achieve the same, I cannot:

• :e /usr/ <Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab><Tab> it completes to /usr/local ok
• I see no way to enter the /usr/local directory and complete subdirectories. Arrow keys do not work
• no way to go up a directory either

Is there a way I could configure the nvim-cmp mapping, for that, or at least disable nvim-cmp for the command wildmenu?

Thank you

[mildred]

Well, I had this in my config that I did not see right away:

cmp.setup.cmdline(
    ":",
    {
        sources = cmp.config.sources(
            {
                {name = "path"}
            },
            {
                {name = "cmdline"}
            }
        ),
        mapping = cmp.mapping.preset.cmdline(),
    }
)

I removed this snippet and I got the raw cmdline again.

Still, it would be nice to be able to specify a mapping allowing to doe down and up in directories with nvim-cmp.

[mildred]

Instead I'm using https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/22627/switching-arrow-key-mappings-for-wildmenu-tab-completion

[mildred]

Well, it does not work very well. After some time, I'm left without ANY completion in the command mode. Tab keystrokes just show ^I characters around

edit: :cmap shows that the keybindings has been hijacked by nvim-cmp

[TM10YMhp]

This is what worked best for me:

vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "CmdlineEnter" }, {
  pattern = { ":" },
  callback = function()
    local mappings = vim.api.nvim_get_keymap("c")
    for _, v in pairs(mappings) do
      if v.desc == "cmp.utils.keymap.set_map" then
        vim.keymap.del("c", v.lhs)
      end
    end
  end,
})