On 12/21/20 9:39 AM, Christos Liaskos wrote:
> Apologies if you got this already via lyx-users.

Definitely a better thread for devel...

>
> Other examples (with more dynamic auto-completion content) would be:
> proposing citations for a sentence based on the context and your
> history, proposing ways to shorten or expand a statement, proposing
> auto-fixes for issues like "undefined terms", "inconsistent ordering
> of items",  etc.
>
> There are external text-analysis tools to do all that already (at some
> level). So I was looking for a general way to integrate them to LyX by
> "hacking" the existing auto-completion mechanism a bit.
>
> Incidentally, with such an autocompletion mechanism, I would be glad
> to try and use LyX for code-authoring (in the programming sense),
> apart from text. It would be nice to code with some beautiful
> typesetting for a change :)
>
> I can start looking into the code then. Are the LFUNs a good to place
> to start and get an idea about how things work? (top-to-bottom approach..)

I guess I would start with GuiCompleter and work backwards, to see where
and how its various methods are called. But that's just my approach.

Riki


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