yes I asked romain to bind the auto complete to enter and we removed it. Now probably having one setting would be good.
Stef On May 5, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Hi, > > This is not great at all. Please read this before going forward. > > We had this in OCompletion before and then it got changed to not use CR for a > reason. The problem is when using fluent APIs that are best read when written > on multiple lines. For example, suppose that I want to type something like > this in Glamour: > > ... > a tree > display: [ ... ] > > After typing "a tree", the first proposed item is "treeLayout" (see the > attached picture). If I press enter to go to the next line "tree" is replaced > with "treeLayout" and this is not the behavior I want. > > The problem is that CR has a useful meaning when typing a piece of text and > this makes it not good as a completion character. Tab on the other hand, is > only used in Smalltalk at the beginning of an empty line so there is no > danger of overloading its functionality in the middle of a text. > > > Now, if you insist, I still believe there is a place for CR. Completion has > two modes: > 1. one in which I write and the completion offers me something, and > 2. one in which I am after I press the down arrow to select some completion > item. > > For 1. you do not want to have CR as a completion character. For 2. it is > probably ok because you enter explicitly in a temporary mode and thus you are > not typing anymore and this will not induce the conflict. > > Cheers, > Doru > > > <example-glamour-fluent-api.png> > > > > On 5 May 2011, at 17:37, Thierry Lebourque wrote: > >> That is really great! >> Many thanks >> >> 2011/5/5 Igor Stasenko <[email protected]>: >>> Hi, i just found inconvenient that for autocompletion i should press >>> tab all the time >>> while i tend to always hit enter, which instead of pasting suggestion, >>> inserts cr into text. >>> >>> So i hacked a lil piece of code to make autocompletion to insert >>> suggested text when you pressing either tab or cr >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig. >>> >> > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com > > "Reasonable is what we are accustomed with." >
