Tim Chase wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > I apologize for the slightly off-topic nature, but I thought I'd just > > throw this out there for anyone working on text editors or IDEs with > > auto-completion. > > Well, Vim7's autocompletion already allows this. Earlier > versions of vim also allowed similar behavior, but (AFAIK) didn't > have a nice way to cancel the suggestion or to accept the > suggestion without an additional character (or leaving insert > mode). In Vim7, you can abort your current ^P/^N completion with > ^E (to regain just what you typed, minus the current > completion/suggestion) or you can accept it with ^Y (which won't > add an extra character), or you can just continue typing to > accept the completion, and then add the character you typed (such > as space, period, etc). > > Other editors/IDEs may have similar functionality... > > -tkc
The best IDE's can do is a minor form of autocomplete, considering the dynamic nature of Python programs. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list