autocomplete not working on windows

[LollipopFt]

auto-completion does not work.
tried on alacritty, windows terminal and base command prompt.
compiled from source.

Reproduction steps

when typing in a text file:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/62802897/138602991-e5df41d5-f569-40a0-a377-c404c01b901c.mp4
you may not notice it. but i had done ctrl-x to try to invoke the autocomplete to no avail. when typing in 'hello' for the second time, autocomplete should have worked at least.

Environment

• Platform: Windows 10 Pro
• Helix version: v0.4.1-272-g42eee9d

AppData\Local\helix\helix.log:

2021-10-25T00:16:29.695 helix_view::editor [ERROR] Failed to initialize the LSP for `source.rust` { IO Error: The system cannot find the file specified. (os error 2) }

this was the only thing in my log file.

[kirawi]

That means the LSP isn't in your PATH. You need to install rust-analyzer and do that :P

[LollipopFt]

oh so just to clarify, i need lsp for autocomplete to work? i was thinking of sublime text where they just had a list of words you had typed for that file and use that as autocomplete output, no lsp needed.

[kirawi]

Yeah, Helix doesn't have that.

[LollipopFt]

i see, thank you!

[dead10ck]

It would be very useful to have a purely lexical autocomplete. Some languages do not have good language servers, and sometimes you're not editing code. Are feature requests accepted?

[sudormrfbin]

It would be very useful to have a purely lexical autocomplete. Some languages do not have good language servers, and sometimes you're not editing code. Are feature requests accepted?

@dead10ck That's a useful feature, could you open a separate issue ?