On 11/30/20 6:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 05:45:59PM -0500, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 11/30/20 5:13 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Scott: Perhaps you can alleviate my confusion here.
Thanks for joining the conversation, Paul. It seems we have a mystery.
I use the CUA bind file
(with a couple of tweaks) and have the same binding for Tab that you listed.
In the preferences dialog, tab completion is on for math mode and off for
text mode.
Just to be clear, I think you mean *automatic* completion is on for
math mode and off for text mode. It took me a while to understand the
distinction.
In a math inset, if I type something like \right and start
playing with the tab key, it does various completion tasks. If I'm not part
way into a LaTeX command (but, say, in an align* environment), tabbing moves
from cell to cell.
In a text table, Tab moves from cell to cell, period. I do *not* under any
circumstances get prompted to do word completion. (If it matters, I do have
continuous spell checking on, using Enchant.) So I can't reproduce the
problem.
While I'm not complaining, either I don't understand the problem or
you and Maria both failed to appease some digital deity with whom I am
apparently on good terms.
Well shoot, I was hoping it was the opposite---that some deity was doing me a
favor by trying to help with completion, and all I would have to do is piss
them off. Gaining their favor seems much more challenging.
This is on Linux Mint 20, so behavior should be the same as on Ubuntu Focal.
Interesting differences. If in preferences you turn automatic completion on for
text, does that change anything? If not, it might just be that completion in
text mode is (conveniently) broken for you.
Scott
As it turns out, I can reproduce the behavior using Maria's example.
Apparently I just did not have enough surrounding text in previous
attempts ... and apparently I've lived a charmed life using tables so far.
An interesting related behavior has to do with the escape key. In other
programs (such as programming IDEs), if I get autocompletion hints I
don't want, I typically hit the escape key to get rid of them. So,
having reproduced the problem with Maria's help, my instinct was to hit
Esc and then Tab ... except Esc boots me out of the table. I can
understand the logic (sort of), but I wonder if there is a way to
repurpose the escape key to just stop hints without moving the cursor?
In any case, perhaps the input completion settings for text should have
one more option that turns off tab completions entirely in the text (but
not in math mode).
Paul
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