Tabnine completion being very flaky after special characters (randomly not appearing) about cmp-tabnine HOT 8 CLOSED

This is not related to this specific plugin, but to your setup in general.
cmp has the following configuration options, which can be set per source, and should help you achieve what you want:
https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp/blob/8bbaeda725d5db6e4e1be2867a64b43bf547cf06/doc/cmp.txt#L427
https://github.com/hrsh7th/nvim-cmp/blob/8bbaeda725d5db6e4e1be2867a64b43bf547cf06/doc/cmp.txt#L432

I essence, cmp will query completion sources only if the pattern before the cursor matches keyword_pattern and the pattern is at least completion.keyword_length characters.

from cmp-tabnine.

			sources = cmp.config.sources({
				{ name = 'nvim_lsp' },
				{ name = 'luasnip' },
				{
					name = 'cmp_tabnine',
					keyword_length = 0,
					keyword_pattern = '*',
				},
				{ name = 'path' },
				{ name = 'buffer' },
			}),

Now tabnine just doesn't appear. Am I doing something wrong?

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you cant use just ''. its not a valid regular expression.
try '.'

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Yep, that works way better. It still fails at the beginning of the line though, which is one of the most important cases:

(Yes, I've scrolled through all of it, Tabnine isn't in the list)

Any idea on why?

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I can confirm this does not work. I also tested directly with the tabnine process, and no results are returned when the cursor is on the first column of a new line.

It might be a tabnine bug. Can you try to recreate this using vscode and the tabnine plugin for it?

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Got some slightly different behaviour on VSCode.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't:

When it doesn't, and calling Alt+] does nothing. But typing a letter and backspacing makes it work again.

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I think this is a bug in tabnine.
Maybe try contacting the tabnine team.

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Sure, will do.

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