On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Silvan Jegen wrote: > Heyhey > > I have implemented basic autocomplete functionality by sending the text > at cursor position as a context to shell commands and dmenu. The user > then chooses the autocompletion text he wants to use in dmenu which is > then inserted at cursor position. > > Ideally the same approach should be used for code completion by sending > some context to a code completion daemon (like gocode[0] for example). The > daemon's output can then be sent to dmenu and selected by the user. > > The patches are still rough but I did not want to invest more time > without knowing if such an approach would be considered for inclusion > or not. Let me know what you think.
Just a couple of comments from glancing over the patches (I will have to take a closer look once I have more time): - use vis-menu (part of lattest git) as a wrapper around dmenu and slmenu - this should also work for unsaved or unnamed files, instead of using `cat filename` you should pipe the current file content to the external application - completion should probably be based on the primary (view_cursors_primary_get) not the the first cursor (view_cursors) Thanks, Marc -- Marc André Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: 10C93617
