514397 – Provide default autocompletion for generic editor

Bug 514397 - Provide default autocompletion for generic editor

Summary: Provide default autocompletion for generic editor

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Text (show other bugs)
Version:	4.7
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	4.7 M7
Assignee:	Nobody - feel free to take it
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Depends on:	514642
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Reported:	2017-03-29 08:25 EDT by Nobody - feel free to take it
Modified:	2017-04-18 07:14 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:	Gerrit Change Git Commit Gerrit Change Git Commit

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Description Nobody - feel free to take it

2017-03-29 08:25:57 EDT

In case that for a given content-type no autocompletion providers have been supplied we can activate a simple but effective default autocompletion.

This would simply split the text in words - defined as anything between non-alphanumerics - and use these as proposals provided you have a prefix. See https://imgur.com/a/VmVu1 , https://imgur.com/a/RMehK and https://imgur.com/a/cm7X6 for a quick look of how it would work.

Of course this will only activate if there is no autocompletion processor provided for that content type (i.e. better than nothing).

Comment 1 Mickael Istria

2017-04-04 07:22:20 EDT

I found out that the current proposal for word completion doesn't mix well with other completion processors. It seems like the proposals miss to implement ICompletionProposalExtension2#validate(...) method so the popup is hidden whenever there is a change (rather than continuing the completion session).

Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2017-04-05 05:47:07 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/94443

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2017-04-05 09:25:40 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/94443 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.text.git/commit/?id=8b0b0d544e1f4a70aafef0266f2f43e3a6c69c68

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov

2017-04-06 07:31:21 EDT

Please exclude one letter long proposals - makes no sense to see a/1/2.... proposals.

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2017-04-06 09:06:02 EDT

New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/94565

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2017-04-06 10:17:20 EDT

Gerrit change https://git.eclipse.org/r/94565 was merged to [master].
Commit: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.text.git/commit/?id=e1010f3d804f87745414135ba639256fbb8e9284

Comment 7 Alexander Kurtakov

2017-04-18 07:14:44 EDT

Works fine now (single letter words excluded).