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tom_seddon
Tomato Guru
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 Posted - Apr 11 2007 : 06:24:02 AM
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Hi
At one point, I'm sure that VAX provided a Ctrl+Space facility in text files that guessed what you wanted by just looking at the other strings in the file. (This is like vim's Ctrl+N, emacs's M-/, and, indeed, like what VAX does when you're typing comments in a c++ file.)
Doesn't seem to happen any more though! I for one quite miss it. Can we have it back?!
Along the same lines, another useful facility would be to have VAX do the same in files of types that you have configured in Tools, Options, Text Editor, File Extension, to have a more C++y "Editing Experience".
(It would also be nice if this used the C/C++ notion of "word", so you didn't end up with completions that had a trailing comma or punctuation (etc.) like you do inside comments sometimes.)
The rationale for this: currently I have Visual Studio set up to provide a C++ "Editing Experience" for a couple of scripting languages I use that are syntactically close enough to C to make it worthwhile. It works relatively well, and (compared to switching between VS and emacs) it is pretty convenient. But I do miss the word completion.
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feline
Whole Tomato Software
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 12 2007 : 11:35:45 AM
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Do you remember when this used to work? I have just tried this in VA 1301 and it is not working for me.
This is an interesting idea, but I am a little worried about the large number of requests it would generate. I can see people wanting alt-m to do file navigation, alt-g to work, etc.
I know this, since I have been working with VBScript recently, and I have already been thinking about getting the full power of VA in VBScript editing  |
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tom_seddon
Tomato Guru
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Posted - Apr 13 2007 : 10:44:47 AM
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| I don't remember when it used to work I'm afraid. I have a vague memory of it being round about when I was last unemployed -- don't ask me what makes me think this?? -- so that would be summer of 2003 or so? |
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Ctrl+Space in text files?
