[Geany] autocompletion removing existing word part - Re: Detecting symbols

[Duncan Lock]

I've just started using Geany again lately, with 0.17, after a long spell
using just Gedit. Gedit doesn't really do completion and I didn't really
miss it much, but coming back to Geany, this completiontiontion stuff is
really quite annoying - it makes the completion feature annoying about 50%
of the time I use it and I've increasingly found my self pressing escape
when it pops up, especially when editing existing code.

So, in essence, this new vesrion sounds much better and I think it should
probably be the default.

Dunc

2009/5/19 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>

> On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:20:54 +0200, Enrico wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 19 May 2009 12:24:40 +0100, Nick wrote:
> >
> >>On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:13:44 +0200
> >>Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>> >Furthermore, there is one more thing, that I once noted on this
> >>> >list, but wasn't addressed. Let's take following examples: there is
> >>> >symbol SomeClassWithLongName and I have already typed WithLongName.
> >>> >If I start typing Some right before WithLongName and I get the
> >>> >following:
> >>> >
> >>> >SomeWithLongName
> >>> >
> >>> >I'll get a completion suggestion, which I will choose. But then it
> >>> >will turn into SomeClassWithLongNameWithLongName. Is it possible
> >>> >for geany to be smarter and simple add Class and nothing else?
> >>>
> >>> Sure, but as usual it needs someone to write the code.
> >>
> >>Now done in SVN. Actually it removes any existing word part to the
> >>right.
> >
> >Cool. I didn't expect Scintilla provide this feature already. I
> >would have ended up in writing this on my own and then realising
> >Scintilla can do it as well and then getting frustrated :).
>
> Ah, forgot again to finish my message before sending it:
>
> I'm not sure whether we need a pref for it. I'd say let's use it for
> some time and then decide. So far after about an hour of using this
> change, I got three times into a replacement where more were deleted
> than I wanted. But I think this is just a matter of time to get used to
> the changed behaviour. Let's see.
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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