Hi Doru,
On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OCompletion certainly improved the coding experience in Pharo. But, I
> have a couple of usability suggestions with OCompletion to make it
> better. It would be great if someone (Romain? :)) could act on them:
>
> 1. Right now, OCompletion is triggered both by Tab and by Enter. It
> should be only Tab.
>
> Here is the reason. When I have a cascade, I want to have the methods
> starting from the next line, like this:
> browser mondrian
> title: 'Something';
> painting: [:view ... ]
>
> So, after I type browser mondrian, I naturally want to press Enter.
> However, there exists a method called mondrianAnnounce:, and when I
> press Enter it gets filled in. So, the intent of Enter should be
> similar to that of Space: just as a whitespace. Tab is a good choice
> for triggering the completion because we basically only use Tabs only
> in a new line where the completion does not apply.
>
Well, the completion with enter was requested by a few people, so we
should reach a consensus.
> 2. When no completion is offered and I press tab, I do get some list.
> Why is this not offered by default? Is it because it is slower? Is it
> because it is the regular ECompletion and that is not useful?
It is the regular ECompletion, which is slower, and less useful.
>
> 3. The completion is triggered only when typing, but not when removing
> characters. I believe it would be better if it followed me all the
> time.
>
Good point!
> 4. When I want to navigate through the offered list using the down
> arrow the look changes and the items become wider. In fact, the same
> appears when I force completion by pressing Tab, so this leads me to
> believe that the change in the look is given by the change from O to E
> completion. The look should remain the same.
I thought about it and concluded that it may be good to differentiate
them.
As for the tab/enter issue, different people think differently. That's
why we should reach a consensus
on these two issues, so that I can decide whether I should remove
these two features :-).
Cheers,
Romain
>
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
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