On Sep 11, 2008, at 12:25 AM, NZIBIS wrote: > I don't know BBEdit well at all, but is there some way of mapping some > other character to generate 'tab' or indents (perhaps via the Unix > filters?), then have tab as the 'completion' character. The reason I'm > thinking of this is, tab is the completion character in a number of > the Unix shells. Maybe its just not practical within an editor.
Short answer: it isn't practical in an editor (at least for now.) Longer answer: There is no way to remap <insert tab or equivalent amount of spaces> in the editor to a key besides Tab. I did have a prototype in the lab which allowed you to enable the Tab key as a completion trigger. But since that overloads Tab[1] it results in exactly the behavior you don't want — the completion list making an appearance where what you really intended to do was insert a Tab (or equiv spaces if auto-expand tabs is turned on.) This doesn't rule out Tab as a possible (alternate) completion trigger in the future. (Nor does it guarantee it :-)). We may revisit the issue in the future, but there are certain usability obstacles to overcome before we can ship such a feature. Otherwise it will be frustrating for you. And us. [1] Moreso than in the command line since you typically never use Tab for something else at the command line, but frequently use Tab in an editor to do other things. > Also, is it possible to have the completion option only display, say, > a line under a word where a completion is "on offer", rather than the > list of completions BBEdit does not currently offer this feature. Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
