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Get autocomplete ocamlmerlin in vim

I am trying to get autocomplete for OCaml. I like to use Vim and I found this plugin:

https://github.com/the-lambda-church/merlin

I installed it using OPAM and added the necessary lines to load it into my .vimrc

I made sure that the OPAM bin folder (which contains ocamlmerlin) is in my .profile file and verified that I can access it from the terminal, and for vim I printed out the PATH variable using "Ctrl-r = $ PATH", and it shows that it contains the OPAM bin folder.

This still does not work, I do not know what else needs to be done to make it work. I get syntax highlighting, but it's still without merlin. I want autocomplete to work.

If I press Ctrl-N to display a completion sentence, I get a “normal” vim completion, which is basically a list of words mentioned in the document.

Checking the startup log file, I see that Vim was actually loading merlin:

chdir(/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin)
fchdir() to previous dir
sourcing "/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin/merlin.vim"
finished sourcing /home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vim/plugin/merlin.vim
Searching for "/home/incraved/.opam/system/share/ocamlmerlin/vimbufsync/plugin/**/*.vim"

Any ideas?

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Ctrl-N is the default; its sources are configured using the parameter 'complete', but cannot include custom sources.

The Merlin plugin uses Omni termination , which is launched using Ctrl-X Ctrl-O; see :help compl-omni.

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