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imtrobin
Ketchup Master
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 Posted - May 07 2004 : 12:05:54 AM
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Hi,
Currently, the member listbox using 'Tab' will type out the selected function. How about adding Unix style tabbing ie. when there are two similar matches it autocompletes to the known match only.
eg.
If there is
"BlahOne"
"BlahTwo"
"Bxa"
I type "Bl" then Tab (maybe via another key other than tab), it fills "Blah", and lets me selected BlahOne or BlahTwo.
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schoenherr
Tomato Guru
Germany
160 Posts |
Posted - May 07 2004 : 01:35:19 AM
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i second that,
and i believe there already was a version (maybe VC6) which had this feature. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19164 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2004 : 07:08:19 AM
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that sounds easy enough for WC to do.
i agree, i would love to see this  |
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support
Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2004 : 11:46:03 AM
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Unfortunately, the task is not that easy, at least not easy to implement without making other things annoying.
We could suggest:
Blah
BlahOne
BlahTwo
Bxa
Hitting tab completes a partial symbol but nothing says VA X will suggest BlahOne and BlahTwo at that point -- at least not with the current architecture. There is little history in typing since we are running while the IDE is doing other stuff. We don't hold the IDE until you are finished with the current symbol. You accept Blah and get BlahTwo and BlahThree (and BlahT for that matter, unless we put a min on saved characters.) Oh yes, down-arrowing through suggestions needs to skip Blah -- or at least explain it's a suffix.
As well, adding Blah just made it more difficult to select BlahOne -- and VA X is pretty good about suggesting the right thing first. We'd have to use a different command, eg Something+Tab, to get VA X to complete a common suffix, assuming one exists. In your example, one does not.
We did implement what you describe in an internal build. We tried lots of ways to make is useful. Haven't found one yet. |
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru
Portugal
2322 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2004 : 12:05:15 PM
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| Dont think this will ever work in any way, except assigning a different completion key to it. Say, Capslock instead of Tab might make it work and is close enough to Tab to not be disturbing. I havent yet found any use for Caps lock anyway. I think its the least frequently used key on my keyboard. Even scroll lock I use more frequently (well, not for programming...) |
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Whole Tomato Software
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19164 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2004 : 11:56:03 AM
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thats a fair point.
due to our internal naming conventions we have a lot of long class names that have standard initial parts, eg:
mtQtPatientPathology
mtQtPatientDrug
getting mtQtP expanded to mtQtPatient would be useful...
*considers*
for my needs i might actually be better off simply adding extra autotext templates. starting to get off topic here, but is there a way to force the autotext suggestions to appear?
i have:
#en:
#endif //}}AFX_COMMENTED_OUT-?
defined in VAX, but it doesn't always appear when i type #en it seems that the speed of typing has something to do with this. if i slow down to let VAX catch up with me the autotext templates are more frequent / consistent. |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19164 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2004 : 1:13:26 PM
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Originally posted by Uniwares
Dont think this will ever work in any way, except assigning a different completion key to it. Say, Capslock instead of Tab might make it work and is close enough to Tab to not be disturbing.
if you do this, can i have an option to use something other than caps lock? i agree that this is hardly ever used, it is just i don't want to get into the habit of using it.
i still do a lot of work under UNIX and in VIM, both of which are case sensitive. if caps log gets turned on by mistake then it can cause a load of problems.
how about backwards single quote ` which is above Tab on my UK keyboard? i use this under UNIX, but i don't think i have ever used it under windows. of course, this is probably where someone tells me this key is essential in some windows programming setting  |
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Stephen
Tomato Guru
United Kingdom
781 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2004 : 1:54:39 PM
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I use it in Cygwin.  |
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Whole Tomato Software
5566 Posts |
Posted - May 11 2004 : 2:21:55 PM
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As you surmise, the problem with #en not expanding to #endif appears to be timing related.
http://forum.wholetomato.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2207
As for partial completion, we added it to our list of features to consider again.
ixBug=35 |
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
19164 Posts |
Posted - May 12 2004 : 05:33:04 AM
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| i cannot read that thread. timing related sounds nasty to fix. |
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