I share Jose' opinion here, but making it configurable sounds good. Cheers, Louis
On 23 June 2016 at 17:40, Myron Marston <myron.mars...@gmail.com> wrote: > This behavior of IEx has always surprised and annoyed me. I regularly type h > [first few chars of mod name]<tab><enter> in IEx to read the read the > moduledoc of a particular module, and the trailing period gets in the way > every time. > > Here’s a demonstration showing what happens to me regularly when I try to > read the @moduledoc for a module: > > [image: iex_autocomplete_original] > > With this change, it avoids this problem: > > [image: iex_autocomplete_improved] > > I opened a PR with this change > <https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/4863> but was asked to > redirect conversation here for community feedback first. On the PR, > @antipax said (and @josevalim concurred): > > I’m not in support of merging this, if only because the vast majority of > the time I autocomplete a module in IEx it is to make a remote call. > > I thought the purpose of autocomplete in IEx is to autocomplete tokens > (e.g. module and function names) not to guess the intention of the > programmer and add additional characters after the token. IMO, it’s much > more natural to just complete the module name, and people who want to do a > remote call (or navigate to a “nested” module) can type a period, than to > add the period and force the programmer to delete it. After all, I believe > the autocomplete plugins in most text editors/IDEs would just autocomplete > the module name, and not add the period. > > On the PR @antipax also said: > > I would be in support of making this configurable, however. > > Having this be configurable would meet my needs as long as I could > configure it globally (presumably in ~/.iex.exs) but the trailing dot > still feels like an odd default to me. > > Thoughts from the community? > > Thanks, > Myron > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CADUxQmu%3Dnc1VpF9Y8oFE%2Bzsp45Xb_sCVZjdPLgBQivrpt2iv2g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CADUxQmu%3Dnc1VpF9Y8oFE%2Bzsp45Xb_sCVZjdPLgBQivrpt2iv2g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt4sRT8UVdTkEMm1eWsaLdrG%2BbYWnNN20zqtQEvJHq2rrg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
