Sounds good to me too!
*José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Paul Clegg <dotdotdotp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can get behind this as a no-config-option compromise. :) > > ...Paul > > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Aleksei Magusev <lex...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm wondering, what if we go with combined approach: >> at first TAB we're getting autocomplete up to the "dot" >> and next TAB is appending the "dot". >> >> I believe it can be a good compromise. :) >> >> >> On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 7:29:24 PM UTC+2, Myron Marston wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> I've tend to do this, too, even though I've been using Elixir as my main >>> language at work for nearly a year. It's a big reason I find the appended >>> period to be so annoying. >>> >>> If anything, my vote would be to make it optional -- but default it to >>>> NOT appending the dot. >>> >>> >>> I agree. If we make it a config option, I think it would help newcomers >>> to the language if we made it opt-in instead of opt-out. Given that most >>> auto-complete tooling does not usually add an extra period, newcomers to >>> the language are not going to expect it, and won't know how to get out of >>> the "current line" issue Paul mentioned without exiting the IEx session and >>> restarting it. Furthermore, since they are a newcomer, they are not likely >>> to know about the config option. >>> >>> OTOH, experienced users who may want the appended period will understand >>> IEx's config system and can more easily configure it for their needs. >>> >>> Myron >>> >>> On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 9:51:02 AM UTC-7, ...Paul wrote: >>>> >>>> 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 <louisp...@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....@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. 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