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EG (8/29/00 11:42:51 AM) in LeapFrog I could use code assist to expand keywords like "synchronized". I miss this functionality in the new code assist. NOTES: PM (8/29/00 10:37:52 AM) Keyword completions are nice to have, in the form of macros (like in VAJ), however I am reluctant to consider it as a standard completion engine inference. Indeed usually I think I know exactly I want a keyword pattern and not a type completion, and using a case insensitive code assist, a completion on prefix 'sync' would require to traverse the entire workspace looking for possible type matches. In LF or VAJ, completions were performed against build states, and did not cost as much, but now it might be quite painfull. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to consider doing these on a different shortcut ? EG (8/30/00 12:35:41 PM) code assist gives me support to enter a program, so why should there be a different shortcut for keyword completion? Competitive code assist implementations provide different short cuts for code assist in different contexts. PM (10/4/2001 10:08:28 AM) Current approach is that this is a pure UI issue. Note that we have the API to answer keywords (depending on current context). Will wait to close until UI declares success.
can we give this issue some life? code assist for keywords like 'instanceof' of 'synchronized' is definitly helpful. The API is there in the ICodeCompletionRequestor, but the callback is not called for 'for' ect. 'for' would be intresting as we can use this information as context information for templates.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19063 ***
