On 9-okt-2006, at 21:24, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
On Oct 9, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Charlie Garrison wrote:
Good morning,
On 9/10/06 at 9:31 AM -0400, R. Tyler Ballance
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, I'm wondering about actual _autocompletion_, and I'm not
talking about the template-style-clippings. While writing code I
want to autocomplete
http://c-command.com/bbautocomplete/
I did give this a whirl, and I must have been using it wrong (very
possible ;)) but it didn't quite work as I had hoped (see: not at
all, a key-combo could have been conflicting)
Perhaps your expectations are different than what this tool delivers.
BBAutocomplete takes the autocompletion possibilities from the
document itself (or any of the documents you happen to have open at
the time). This is practical for variable names, but less useful for
completing something in the deep class hierarchy in Java, if you
haven't yet used that particular element.
But this isn't a job for a third party utility, SubEthaEdit, Xcode,
TextMate, and even Smultron have some form of usable auto-complete
built into the editor, not some third-party add-on. Considering two
of the aforementioned are free, and the other two are well below
BBEdit's price, I really don't want to shell out the money for
BBEdit if one of the key features I think of a source editor is
_completely_ missing and to gain that feature I have to rely on
some third party tool.
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I want to like BBEdit, I really do, since I think most of the other
editor offerings are also missing at least one _major_ feature
(tabs, code folding, macros, SCM integration), but its hard to with
a price tag like it has, while lacking major, necessary, features,
and receiving regular errors with code folding (error code -50 IIRC).
Code folding is a new feature (believe it or not, after 10+ years
they still find new stuff to add), added about a month ago. Please
report issues, that'll help us all. I'm sure that completion, and
completion from the clippings, or another location where a class
hierarchy can be found will be added in the future (no need to limit
this to Java).
Maarten
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