[Geany] Completions in strings

Steve steve at xxxxx
Sun Jul 10 03:16:19 UTC 2011


On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:46:16 +1000
Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 July 2011 11:58, Steve <steve at trinidadgraphics.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:53:39 +1000
> > Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This is deliberate, no autocompletion is done in comments or
> >> strings.
> >
> > Why is that? In php, things like
> >
> > $s = "$firstname $lastname works for $boss.";
> >
> > abound. Any reason for not making such things easy?
> >
> 
> Dunno, its been that way for a long time.  One of the original devs
> would have to answer that.
> 
> You can always force it with the complete word keybinding (Ctrl-space)
> 

No, the keybinding is disabled in quoted strings too. Any chance this
might get fixed at some point?

Thanks,

Steve

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Steve Jacobs
Trinidad Graphics
www.trinidadcolorado.net
Trinidad, CO US



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