Hi Glenn,
Have you tried using jtags. It will get you some of the way but is not as
slick as the pop-up menu feature you describe.
James
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>
> Hi
>
> I am a very satisfied user of JDE (b10 on Emacs 20.4.1 on Win 98).
>
> It compares very favourably to all the other IDEs I've used. However, some
> of them, such as Visual Studio and JBuilder, have a nice feature where they
> show hints for method name completion.
>
> For example, if I was typing
>
> Socket so = new Socket(
>
> ... at this point, the IDE will pop up a menu showing each of the overloaded
> constructors. I find this useful because it acts to both reduce typing and
> serve as a memory-jogger!
>
> Would it be possible to add this functionality to the JDE? I assume it'd be
> via the BeanShell. Or, if not the JDE, is there some other package that can
> do this sort of thing?
>
> Thanks in advance - both for any answers to this question, and for a great
> package!
>
> Regards
>
> Glenn.
>
> P.S. I do know about dabbrev-expand, which has been mentioned here recently;
> however I'm after something that actually parses the JDK documentation.
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