Re: Over zealous autocomplete
Re: Over zealous autocomplete
- Subject: Re: Over zealous autocomplete
- From: Jean-Denis MUYS <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:41:40 +0000
- Thread-topic: Over zealous autocomplete
On 2 août 2012, at 17:45, "Mills, Steve" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> Anybody else experience this in Xcode 4.3.3? Type something like "bool" and pause to think, autocomplete pops up and completes it with "boolean_t" with the "ean_t" in grey. You proceed with your thought and hit tab a few times to insert some tabs between "bool" and where you're going to type the variable name, only to realize that autocomplete left you with "boolean_t".
>
> Tab is a dumb key to use for accepting autocompletes.
It's the worst of all keys, except every other one.
"tab" means "go to the next thing". To me the choice fits nicely.
It's unfortunate that "tab" *also* ended up meaning "align to such line position".
For me the two meanings almost never collide in the example you give, simply because when I program, my eye stays on the screen, mostly.
However, I regularly get collisions with template placeholders that I have left pending some (perhaps many) lines below.
I don't complain however. The only alternatives to Tab I can imagine are Return and Enter.
Many keyboards don't have Enter any more. And Return could yield the same issue that you raise.
I haven't tried, but perhaps it's possible to remap the tab key to something you'll like more.
Jean-Denis
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