Re: [Geany-Devel] Autocomplete on the fly

2016-04-25 Thread Matthew Brush

On 2016-04-25 03:15 PM, Arthur Peka wrote:

You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing
anything. Like it happens in *any *proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code -
you name it. You *don't* loose seconds to press some key combination there.
It happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?



Geany's behaviour is as expected; you type some number of prefix 
characters (Lex mentioned the pref. that controls it), and it offers a 
list of suggestions. If the selected suggestion is the one you want, 
press Enter and it will be completed, otherwise keep typing and the list 
is narrowed until the completion you want is available (or not) and then 
press Enter to accept it. It's basically the same as all editors/IDEs 
I've used which offer auto-completion (QtCreator, VisualStudio, 
Code::Blocks, SublimeText).


Maybe you disabled autocompletion or messed with one of the related 
settings? You can run Geany with the -c argument, passing some new 
directory there and Geany will write out a fresh config which you can 
use to test that.


Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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Re: [Geany-Devel] Autocomplete on the fly

2016-04-25 Thread Lex Trotman
Since we don't have those installed and the Eclipse manual does not
seem to have any explanation of what it calls "autocompletion" (at
least its search could not find it) and Idea does not seem to have a
manual online, can you expand on what you mean by "autocompletion" and
how it works in *ALL* IDEs.

Geany will offer symbol or word autocompletion when you have typed a
valid prefix of at least the length specified in the preferences page
I previously posted, did you try changing the length of the required
prefix from 4?  But although Geany will offer what it thinks are valid
autocompletions it requires the user to select one, since it can't
read their mind and doesn't actually know what the user is going to
type.

On 26 April 2016 at 08:15, Arthur Peka  wrote:
> You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing
> anything. Like it happens in any proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code - you
> name it. You don't loose seconds to press some key combination there. It
> happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?
>
> Artur.
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Lex Trotman  wrote:
>>
>> menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred
>>
>> On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka  wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by
>> > pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're
>> > using
>> > Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
>> >
>> > Artur.
>> >
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Re: [Geany-Devel] Autocomplete on the fly

2016-04-25 Thread Arthur Peka
You seem to misunderstand me. I mean autocompletion without pressing
anything. Like it happens in *any *proper IDE - Eclipse, IDEA, VS Code -
you name it. You *don't* loose seconds to press some key combination there.
It happens as you type. I suppose that's not supported in Geany?

Artur.

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Lex Trotman  wrote:

> menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred
>
> On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by
> > pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using
> > Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
> >
> > Artur.
> >
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Re: [Geany-Devel] Autocomplete on the fly

2016-04-24 Thread Lex Trotman
menu->edit->preferences->editor->completions and set your preferred

On 24 April 2016 at 20:13, Arthur Peka  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by
> pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using
> Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?
>
> Artur.
>
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[Geany-Devel] Autocomplete on the fly

2016-04-24 Thread Arthur Peka
Hi,

I understand that in Geany you can auto-complete the current word by
pressing Ctrl+Space. But that's unhandy to say the least, if you're using
Geany as IDE. Is there any way of turning autocomplete on the fly?

Artur.
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