I'm not quite sure why the wildcard is '.*' and not just '*'? (Maybe some regex thing I'm not familiar with...)
Anyway, I agree with you, autocomplete in general could be improved - it has never seemed as 'nice' in IDEA as it was in JBuilder. JBuilder took in to account what is on the other side of the cursor, which IDE doesn't seem to do at the moment; It would be great to provide a list sorted by number of matched characters. There are existing obstacles to this however... The auto complete common prefix is great, but it should use existing characters if possible. For example, I have 2 methods fooOne() and fooTwo(). If I type fooOne() and then later want to change it to fooTwo(), I might put my cursor here : f|ooOne(); Trouble is, if I autocomplete there I'll end up with: foo|ooOne(); As the auto complete common prefix has ignored the existing characters even though they were the same. Now, even if IDEA did look to the right of the cursor (e.g. using Paul's suggestion below), there would be no point as it wouldn't find anything. N. Paul Ruane wrote: > I was using the goto class and had this idea. When you start typing, the classes >are matched, so the following: > > IceCream| > > Found my class, "IceCreamFactory". > > I then moved the cursor to the beginning of the line as I realised I wanted to find >the implentation which, with our convention, is DefaultIceCreamFactory. > > Def|IceCream > > But of course this didn't match until I completed the word "Default". My suggestion >is to treat the cursor as the wildcard .* > > IceCream| -> IceCream.* > |IceCream -> .*IceCream > Byte|Stream -> Byte.*Stream > > This could be applied immediately after cursor move or after a few millisecond delay. > > Kanpai, > Paul. > > > -- > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not >the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the >sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or >distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. > > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
