Re: autocompletion

Ricardo Fernández Pascual <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
El lun, 25-11-2002 a las 23:15, Tommi Komulainen escribió:

> I'd like to elaborate on the tab-completion as I think it should
> probably work very similar to the tab-completion in shells, e.g.
> 
>       * pressing tab will complete everything non-ambiguous from the
>         current point forward, and *not* show the dropdown list
>       * if non-ambiguous completion is not possible, only then show the
>         dropdown list
>               * actually, the dropdown list should probably be shown
>                 only after tab is pressed twice in a row; that way you
>                 can avoid ambiguities in behavior and be sure that
>                 hitting <anychar><tab> never shows the dropdown and that
>                 <anychar><tab><tab> always does

Thy do you want to hit tab twice to show the list? It is not the same
case than in the shell, because here we can show a different window
without causing scroll or disturbing the user too much.

I understand that some people don't like automatically showing the
window at all. So, I think we should add a pref for this (actually,
unhide the current pref). This is not a case that can get it to "just
work" for everyone. 

Repeat with me: adding a pref is not the end of the world. Even if Havoc
says so.

> 
> Hmm, quickly glancing at the code I noticed some note about heuristic
> completions (to be done) when tab is pressed.  I only wonder what they
> were...

The heuristic completions is an idea from Matt Aubury that was
implemented in galeon 1, but I don't think it was useful at all. If
someone wants to reimplement it, it worked when pressing TAB twice.




-- 
Ricardo Fernández Pascual
[email protected]
Murcia. España.



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