Hi,
I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
Artur.
menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred
On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka artur.peka@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
Artur.
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You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing anything. Like it happens in *any *proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code - you name it. You *don't* loose seconds to press some key combination there. It happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?
Artur.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred
On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka artur.peka@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
Artur.
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Since we don't have those installed and the Eclipse manual does not seem to have any explanation of what it calls "autocompletion" (at least its search could not find it) and Idea does not seem to have a manual online, can you expand on what you mean by "autocompletion" and how it works in *ALL* IDEs.
Geany will offer symbol or word autocompletion when you have typed a valid prefix of at least the length specified in the preferences page I previously posted, did you try changing the length of the required prefix from 4? But although Geany will offer what it thinks are valid autocompletions it requires the user to select one, since it can't read their mind and doesn't actually know what the user is going to type.
On 26 April 2016 at 08:15, Arthur Peka artur.peka@gmail.com wrote:
You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing anything. Like it happens in any proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code - you name it. You don't loose seconds to press some key combination there. It happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?
Artur.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred
On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka artur.peka@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
Artur.
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On 2016-04-25 03:15 PM, Arthur Peka wrote:
You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing anything. Like it happens in *any *proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code - you name it. You *don't* loose seconds to press some key combination there. It happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?
Geany's behaviour is as expected; you type some number of prefix characters (Lex mentioned the pref. that controls it), and it offers a list of suggestions. If the selected suggestion is the one you want, press Enter and it will be completed, otherwise keep typing and the list is narrowed until the completion you want is available (or not) and then press Enter to accept it. It's basically the same as all editors/IDEs I've used which offer auto-completion (QtCreator, VisualStudio, Code::Blocks, SublimeText).
Maybe you disabled autocompletion or messed with one of the related settings? You can run Geany with the -c argument, passing some new directory there and Geany will write out a fresh config which you can use to test that.
Cheers, Matthew Brush