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Re: [ide-dev] Auto content assist

> But it definitely would be better if it worked asynchronously.

Yes, I agree with that. The tricky part in converting existing content assist processors is that they can currently access the UI thread. Plus, they can be contributed by clients i.e. we don't have control over them (https://bugs.eclipse.org/510814).

Dani



From:        Bruno Medeiros <bruno.do.medeiros@xxxxxxxxx>
To:        Discussions about the IDE <ide-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        21.04.2017 22:46
Subject:        Re: [ide-dev] Auto content assist
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On 21 April 2017 at 18:28, Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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


Slow/fast for an UI-blocking operation that is invoked explicitly (Ctrl+space) is not the same as slow/fast for an UI-blocking operation that is invoked automatically and that I may not even want at that point.
So for example blocking 200-400ms for a completion I invoked explicitly is fast. But having the UI block for 200-400ms when I am typing and want to continue typing or do something else (but not autocomplete) is mega annoying. (more or less to how often and long these freezes occur)

I guess this could be mitigated by choosing a good auto-invoke delay, that would be key to having this work is a suitable way. So maybe I was wrong to say it needs to be done in async mode to be worthwhile. But it definitely would be better if it worked asynchronously.


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