Bug 440744

Summary:	[content assist] On autocomplete, show numbers left to selections, like a (Japanese) IME
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Paul Frischknecht <paul_frischknecht>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	4.3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Paul Frischknecht

2014-07-30 06:10:24 EDT

You may have never used an Input Method Editor for typing in Japanese (you should try!), but when typing with it, you can make it show suggestions (suggested kanji for your phonetic spelling kana) for your input and you can choose one of them. 
This is very similar to Ctrl+Space intellisense activation in programming IDEs.
However, all of them, including eclipse, lack one feature the IME has:
Numbers to the left of the entities.

With the IME, you can then type the number (usually only a single digit) to  select a suggestion that is not the first one (e.g. the 6th which suggests to convert your typing "2014nen" to 二〇一四年), without having to scroll down there with the arrow keys.

Comment 1 Wojciech Sudol

2014-07-30 10:06:17 EDT

Good idea.
How the IME distinguish whether the number you pressed is a normal character (that should be written to the editor) or a number of option in the assist dialog/popup?

Comment 2 Paul Frischknecht

2014-07-31 12:43:53 EDT

You cannot write the numbers 1 to 9 anymore one the suggestion window is open. If you type 0 or a letter however, the suggestion window closes. That's a bit different from how the Intellisense works.

Comment 3 Dani Megert

2014-08-05 10:20:22 EDT

See also bug 386378.