[Geany] Autocompletion followed by text

[Nick Treleaven]

On 09/06/2007 05:35:33 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:12:20 -0600, Steve <steve at trinidadgraphics.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:52:36 +0200
> > Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:12:32 -0600, Steve
> > > <steve at trinidadgraphics.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Autocompletion.conf expansions don't work if there is text on
> > > > the line after the expansion point. Is there a way to fix this?
> > > > They work fine on empty lines or at the end of a line. I'm 
> using
> > > > build
> > > > 1851.
> > > This is a feature not a bug. We discussed this partly on this 
> list
> > > [1]. IMO it is better to not auto complete if the cursor is not 
> at
> > > the end of a line.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, why?
> Because it may confuse too much when accidentally hitting [Tab] (or
> whatever the auto completion is bound to) and is probably very
> unexpected.
> 
When I first added this behaviour, it was when the default 
autocompletion was triggered just by typing space. So I added it so the 
autocompletion wasn't triggered when e.g. typing 'if' at the start of a 
line that already had text on it.

Now I can't really think of a situation where this is necessary. Are 
there any real situations where this is a problem?

Also, if it is useful, maybe we should add a (possibly hidden) 
preference to disable it.

Regards,
Nick