On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:09:41 +0100, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On 18/10/07 21:01:28, Enrico Tröger wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:19:33 -0400, "John Gabriele" jmg3000@gmail.com wrote:
It seems like Geany offers 2 ways of helping complete what you're
in
the middle of typing:
- Autocomplete construct
- Complete word
I think we should separate these two features more clearly because they are two different kinds of helpers. The question for me is, how. You know, English isn't my mother tongue and right now I have no idea how to improve it by keeping its meaning. Any ideas?
I think autocompletion is when the editor suggests matches for a partial word, and construct completion is used for completing things like if, for, etc. But now that construct completion is configurable, it is different as the trigger word is replaced rather than expanded. So perhaps we should use a new term for configurable completion - now it's not necessarily completing anything.
I agree. The terms "auto completion of constructs" and "contruct completion" are more or less leftovers from before where constructs like if, for, while and so on where really auto completed once you hit space after one of them. Then we changed it to have it less automatically, so you had to hit TAB to actually trigger it. Now, Nick is right it is something else and should be renamed. So my suggestion is to rename the current construct completion completely to e.g. "code snippets" or something else.
Regards, Enrico