> On 05 Oct 2015, at 22:23, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > marcus this is about completion not syntax hilighting and the logic can be > tricky. > The student that was planning to work on it used a statistcal model that > shows that it was much better than the default eclipse one. > Now he just left.
He was from Delft :). The idea to rely on sat can help you to understand whether you are typing a parameter (variable, literal) or a message, and whether it is the beginning of a new message or a continuation of a keyword one. Uko P.S. I’m not AST expert, but this is how I understand some things > > Stef > > Le 5/10/15 09:25, Marcus Denker a écrit : >>> On 05 Oct 2015, at 08:39, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/10/15 23:53, Peter Uhnák wrote: >>>> This is both rant and list of questions/notes/observations... >>>> >>>> ...but first of all: >>>> do Smalltalkers not like code completion? Because the one in Pharo is >>>> really poor and not only that nobody is doing anything about it, *but >>>> also nobody is complaining*; this leads me to believe that you either >>>> >>>> a) don't have the manpower (this is true pretty much always, so no >>>> complaints here) >>> Definitely. >>> The issue tracker has lots of interesting completion related issues, like >>> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/13124/NECContext-needs-plugin-design >>> >> Yes, and we need to change it to use the AST instead of Shout… that could >> simplify it a lot. >> >> Marcus >> >> >> > >
