Good point.
I also need Transcript once in a while, and didn't realize that was
the reason
it was missing!
Thanks,
Romain
On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Stefan Marr wrote:
> While someone is looking into usability, is there a way to also
> complete for common tokens, or better global names?
>
> A very annoying example is the completion offered while trying to use
> the Transcript, it always offers TranscriptTest, instead of
> Transcript, which is probably the case because it is not take names of
> globals into account.
>
> And since "printf"-style debugging seems to be the only way to debug
> concurrent code, that is something I use very frequently...
>
> Best regards
> Stefan
>
>
> On 30 Nov 2009, at 09:56, 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>> --
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>>
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>> you will end up with a messy haircut."
>>
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