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Ah, this should really be easier to find in the vim docs. I did ":help ^x" and only came up with:

CTRL-X Subtract [count] from the number or alphabetic character at or after the cursor. {not in Vi}

After trying again today, I could not find any thing on context-aware completion no matter what help commands I tried. And I can usually find what I'm looking for there.

When I tried C-x in insert mode a couple of days ago, I'm not sure how I missed the: "-- ^X mode (^]^D^E^F^I^K^L^N^O^Ps^U^V^Y)" string that appears in the mode line. Perhaps I saw it and didn't grasp what it was.

I'm always amazed after so many years of using vim how many new things there are to learn about it.



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