> But it would be useful if a name completion/intellisense would work for
> defined verbs. Like I would just load 'primitives.ijs' and all defined
> names/nouns/verbs would be part of name completion/intellisense.
> How would we go about this?
I'm doing this since ages.
When I edit scripts with vim, I complete against the tags collection
compiled from J's standard library (Ctrl-X Ctrl-], or, depending on
your vim version and setup, simply Ctrl-P).
When using the jconsole, I simply use xterm(1)'s auto-completion
against the screen buffer. This is a lesser known facility in xterm
which may or may not be compiled into your distribution's xterm.
Where it is not, I compile xterm on my own, because it is tremendously
useful for me, for any and even across applications. (For example,
let "ls" list your files, and subsequently use completion to "rm"
some of those files.) The relevant configure option is "--enable-dabbrev".
Here is the snippet from the xterm man page:
ACTIONS
It is possible to rebind keys (or sequences of keys) to arbitrary
strings for input, by changing the translations resources for the vt100
or tek4014 widgets. Changing the translations resource for events
other than key and button events is not expected, and will cause unpre-
dictable behavior. The following actions are provided for use within
the vt100 or tek4014 translations resources: [...]
dabbrev-expand()
Expands the word before cursor by searching in the preceding
text on the screen and in the scrollback buffer for words
starting with that abbreviation. Repeating dabbrev-expand()
several times in sequence searches for an alternative expansion
by looking farther back. Lack of more matches is signaled by a
beep(). Attempts to expand an empty word (i.e., when cursor is
preceded by a space) yield successively all previous words.
Consecutive identical expansions are ignored. The word here is
defined as a sequence of non-whitespace characters. This
feature partially emulates the behavior of `dynamic abbrevia-
tion' expansion in Emacs (bound there to M-/). Here is a
resource setting for xterm which will do the same thing:
*VT100*translations: #override \n\ Meta <KeyPress>
/:dabbrev-expand()
Martin
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