Is there a way to change the behavior of the vim omnicomplete menu?

Omnicompletion is working, but it automatically inserts the first result.

What I'd like to do is open the omnicomplete menu, then be able to type to narrow down the results, then hit enter or tab or space or something to insert the selected menu item.

Is this possible?

From stackoverflow

• This plugin might do what you are after: autocomplpop

  Or you can try and make Vim completion popup menu work just like in an IDE.

• This is the general Vim completion behaviour. For a complete overview, you can do

  :he compl-current
  

  But for your specific case (which you require the completion to be in state 2 or 3 (described in the document above). You can simply use Backspace, or Control-H to jump from state one to state two. In state 2 you can narrow the search by typing regular characters. So to complete completion with narrowing:

  compl<C-X><C-P><BS>letion
  

  It is totally backwards, I know, but that's how it works.

  Edit: You can use the Down arrow key too isntead of Control-H or Backspace, and it has the benefit of not deleting a character.

• The command you are looking for is:

  :set completeopt+=longest
  

  It will insert the longest common prefix of all the suggestions, then you can type and delete to narrow down or expand results.

• set wildmenu
  set wildmode=list:longest,full
  

  Found here. There is also a great plugin for all of your completion needs called SuperTab continued.