Looking for auto completion widget

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Apr 27 22:51:43 UTC 2002


Dan Ingalls <Dan at SqueakLand.org> wrote:
> Also, as I'm sure everyone knows, any Squeak code pane will complete the name of a partially typed selector if you hit cmd-q ("query symbols" ;-).  If it's ambiguous, successive strokes will cycle through the partial matches.  That code is based in ParagraphEditor>>querySymbol:.
> 

Also, alt-z will cancel the completion cycling, if you are going down
the wrong track.

Anyway, it would surely be reasonable to have the completion be
context-sensitive.  In an IRC chat, it could cycle through user names. 
While someone is adding this nice feature, they could refactor the text
editting code a little, too.  :)


-Lex



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