Re: [ide-dev] Auto content assist

["Daniel Megert" <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The foremost issue
is what Mickael Istria mentioned: the completion API needs to be adapted
to work in asynchronous mode, instead of in the UI thread. Otherwise, enabling
auto-invocation of completion is almost certain to be a grief to the user.

I disagree with that. The existing JDT
content assist is expected to return results fast. Slow completion processors
are flagged and disabled. So, there won't be more delay than when you currently
type '.' or invoke Ctrl+Space. Did you try it before commenting here?

Dani



From:      
 Bruno Medeiros <bruno.do.medeiros@xxxxxxxxx>
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The issue is not whether to use a workaround or not -
it's quite easy to add a preference that auto-invokes completion with any
keypress. 

The foremost issue is what Mickael Istria mentioned: the
completion API needs to be adapted to work in asynchronous mode, instead
of in the UI thread. Otherwise, enabling auto-invocation of completion
is almost certain to be a grief to the user.

On 21 April 2017 at 16:42, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
There's no need for a regex or adding
more complexity. Entering the characters is just a current hack/workaround.
What we would have to add is support to support auto-completion at any
position after the specified delay.

Dani



From:        "Eric
Moffatt" <emoffatt@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:        21.04.2017
17:39
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[ide-dev] Auto content assist
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Good point....would an exclusion string or RegExp work ?
 
Perhaps it's irrelevant; the concept of content assist 'trigger' sounds
like it's language specific (in more ways than one...;-). Is there an LSP
concept for this ? To get the best experience we need to have as much context
as possible to filter / rank the results (things like whether the editor
is expecting a field, methods with different args...).
 
Just for my interest do you know how close preference change approach comes
to mimicking IJ ?
 
Eric
 
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What if I’m using Unicode characters in my identifiers, do I have to enter
all 32000? Sorry, that workaround is a bit silly. And it sounds like there
are a lot of issues to solve before we even get there anyway.
 
Doug
 
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Subject: Re: [ide-dev] Auto content assist
 
For at least some editors (java) this can be controlled through preferences...Preferences->Java->Editor->content
assist has a value called 'Auto-activation triggers for java'. it's defaults
to '.' but if you change it to 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.'
then it'll always invoke content assist (much closer to the IJ feel).
 
Onwards,
Eric
 
 
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From: Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On 04/21/2017 04:25 AM, Doug Schaefer wrote:
Then I switched back to Eclipse to do some CDT work and typed the beginning
of an identifier and expected content assist to just pop up. I forgot that
I had to ask the editor to pop it up for me. Auto content assist is one
of those features that once you start using it just becomes natural.
It's also a reason why some people do prefer IJ for Java development. Auto
content-assist is a must-have nowadays. 
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