I'm actually with Myron. Since I haven't found a good way in iex to "cancel the current line", if I get in that spot, I lose a lot of history and current variables and whatnot. If anything, my vote would be to make it optional -- but default it to NOT appending the dot. I prefer UI elements that help me do what I want to do, not make presumptions about what I want to do.
...Paul On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Louis Pop <louispopin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM-pwt4sRT8UVdTkEMm1eWsaLdrG%2BbYWnNN20zqtQEvJHq2rrg%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/CAD3kWz86V6V%2BEg6QHeXBSNa6ak2BejkowbNLNb1T3JUStbDKzw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
