# Jedi Autocompletion disappears after typing the first word

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586>\
**Category:** JupyterLab\
**Tags:** jupyterlab, how-to, help-wanted\
**Created:** [September 1, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586 "2021-09-01T15:15:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sotastica](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sotastica/32/5106_2.png) [@sotastica](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sotastica)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586/1 "2021-09-01T15:15:23Z")

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I would like the autocompletion window to remain as I type the first letter.

Now, after I type the first letter, the window is closed as you can see in the [video](https://www.dropbox.com/s/togw1c9elrvf043/Recording%209-1-21%20at%2017.12.04.mp4?dl=0).

I wonder if there is a configuration to keep the window open since the very first moment that I press the `tab` key.

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**Author:** ![krassowski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/krassowski/32/1685_2.png) [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2021, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586/2 "2021-09-01T18:32:06Z")

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This looks like something that needs to be improved in a future release. I will add it to [Completer public API refactor wishlist · Issue #9763 · jupyterlab/jupyterlab · GitHub](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues/9763).

In the meantime you could use [jupyterLab-lsp](https://github.com/krassowski/jupyterlab-lsp/) with the following completion settings:

```auto
{
        "continuousHinting": true,
        "disableCompletionsFrom": ["LSP"]
}

```

![demo](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/jupyter/original/2X/a/a8cf8b4e27eff95238a012b65a80bdcb045b04e5.gif)

I mean you could keep the LSP completions, which are also using Jedi underneath if you install pylsp, but since you specifically asked about the default auto-completion, I added the demo with LSP completions disabled.

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**Author:** ![sotastica](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sotastica/32/5106_2.png) [@sotastica](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sotastica)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586/3 "2021-09-02T07:02:00Z")

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Wow! Thanks you so much for your response, very clarifying 😄

PD: which app do you use for the keys to appear on the bottom right corner? 😬

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**Author:** ![krassowski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/krassowski/32/1685_2.png) [@krassowski](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/krassowski)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/jedi-autocompletion-disappears-after-typing-the-first-word/10586/4 "2021-09-02T09:31:09Z")

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key-mon. It may require an install directly from the [git repo](https://github.com/scottkirkwood/key-mon), as the last time I checked the version shipped in distros did not work with the latest GTK, but it’s worth the trouble.