Many thanks to those who responded and provided clarity. I would propose that if there is whitespace in the preceding position, that it is a tab. If it is non-whitespace, then it should trigger autocomplete. \s|tab \S|autocomplete (| denotes cursor position)
Also, I think should behave like a bash shell, completing as far as it has commonality. comp[tab] ->complete|[d,s,ing] rather than selecting the entry outright (unless that's the only candidate). Opinions? > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 3:28 AM > From: "Christian Stenger" <[email protected]> > To: "Eike Ziller" <[email protected]>, "Jason H" <[email protected]> > Cc: qt-creator <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Overzealous autocomplete > > Hi, > > This is basically a different issue that came with some special re-ordering > inside the proposal widget (done for the C++/Clang side of QC) and the > QmlJSEditor uses the same infrastructure but the re-ordering broke there > several stuff... > > See https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-21527 > > Kind regards, > Christian > > ________________________________________ > From: Qt-creator <[email protected]> on behalf of Eike Ziller > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 9:10:55 AM > To: Jason H > Cc: qt-creator > Subject: Re: [Qt-creator] Overzealous autocomplete > > > > > On 23. Jan 2019, at 20:33, Jason H <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Camera { > > id: camera[enter] > > > > becomes > > Camera { > > id: cameraStateChanged() > > > > > > > > This is very clearly wrong. Since when did enter start being autocomplete > > key? So I did some digging... Autocomplete was set to "always" with a > > timeout of 400ms. It seems the max is 500ms, which is waaaay not enough > > time. > > I also don't know how "when triggered" or "manually" works. But in my > > version of autocomplete, [tab] is what I'm used to. > > > > 1. How do I "trigger" autocomplete, what is "manual" and what is the > > difference? > > I think “when triggered” includes automatic completion popup when certain > characters are typed in the right context, like “.” after a variable name in > case of C++, > while “Manually” only pops up completion when pressing the shortcut. > > > 2. Why is the timeout limited to 500ms? I'd like at least a full second. > > Looks like the configuration was added in 2014 after complains that the delay > is too long. I don’t see a reason why to disallow longer timeouts too. > https://codereview.qt-project.org/250787 > > > 3. Is there anyway to use [tab] to complete? > > Well, you can set the shortcut for “Trigger completion” in Options > > Environment > Keyboard. > But since completion is offered everywhere, you’ll no longer be able to > indent with tab, which is probably not what you want. > > Br, Eike > > -- > Eike Ziller > Principal Software Engineer > > The Qt Company GmbH > Rudower Chaussee 13 > D-12489 Berlin > [email protected] > http://qt.io > Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, > Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, > HRB 144331 B > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator > _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
