In my opinion, completion should not select anything when activated automatically, it is only suggestion. It is the user who choose to use it or not, by using tab or arrow, for example. If the completion is requested intentionally it should behave as described by Doru.
I have used quite a lot of different IDE, and sometimes I find the Pharo completion quite disturbing. But as Stéphane said, it could maybe become a setting. 2011/5/5 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr>: > yes I asked romain to bind the auto complete to enter and we removed it. > Now probably having one setting would be good. > > Stef > > On May 5, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is not great at all. Please read this before going forward. >> >> We had this in OCompletion before and then it got changed to not use CR for >> a reason. The problem is when using fluent APIs that are best read when >> written on multiple lines. For example, suppose that I want to type >> something like this in Glamour: >> >> ... >> a tree >> display: [ ... ] >> >> After typing "a tree", the first proposed item is "treeLayout" (see the >> attached picture). If I press enter to go to the next line "tree" is >> replaced with "treeLayout" and this is not the behavior I want. >> >> The problem is that CR has a useful meaning when typing a piece of text and >> this makes it not good as a completion character. Tab on the other hand, is >> only used in Smalltalk at the beginning of an empty line so there is no >> danger of overloading its functionality in the middle of a text. >> >> >> Now, if you insist, I still believe there is a place for CR. Completion has >> two modes: >> 1. one in which I write and the completion offers me something, and >> 2. one in which I am after I press the down arrow to select some completion >> item. >> >> For 1. you do not want to have CR as a completion character. For 2. it is >> probably ok because you enter explicitly in a temporary mode and thus you >> are not typing anymore and this will not induce the conflict. >> >> Cheers, >> Doru >> >> >> <example-glamour-fluent-api.png> >> >> >> >> On 5 May 2011, at 17:37, Thierry Lebourque wrote: >> >>> That is really great! >>> Many thanks >>> >>> 2011/5/5 Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com>: >>>> Hi, i just found inconvenient that for autocompletion i should press >>>> tab all the time >>>> while i tend to always hit enter, which instead of pasting suggestion, >>>> inserts cr into text. >>>> >>>> So i hacked a lil piece of code to make autocompletion to insert >>>> suggested text when you pressing either tab or cr >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig. >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> www.tudorgirba.com >> >> "Reasonable is what we are accustomed with." >> > > >
