[Geany] autocomplete terminology confusion

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:09:41 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at 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 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems like Geany offers 2 ways of helping complete what you're 
> > in
> > > the middle of typing:
> > > 
> > > 1. Autocomplete construct
> > > 2. 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

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