Re: autocompletion

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:31, Ricardo Fernández Pascual wrote:
> 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.

Note that in above I'm only talking about the behavior what should
happen *when* I hit tab, this has no relevance to showing the list after
the small delay.

I hit tab because I want it to complete the non-ambiguous part, nothing
more.  After the completion, I just continue typing as usual.  If the
dropdown list is shown instantly at that point, it's nothing but
distracting.  Isn't the delay used to avoid exactly this kind of
distraction?

Single tab press should act just as if I had manually typed the
non-ambiguous part myself.  After pressing the tab I could easily wait
the small delay, or hit tab again to see the dropdown list, *if* I
wanted to.


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