[TxMt] Re: bundle organization

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:59 AM, William D. Neumann wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
>>>>   * OCamlCodeCompletion being 3 bundles is ridiculous.
>>>>     Even one is pushing it, given that the concept is
>>>>     a drastic misuse of snippets for a problem domain
>>>>     they aren't suited to, but 3 is definitely overkill.
>>> I think that someone's working on this
>>
>> Yes, I think when the newer completion bundle from David Powers  
>> has been deemed useable enough, the other (snippet-based  
>> completion) bundles will go.
>
> Well, I'm not quite sure what David's vision is for the OCaml  
> Completion bundle he's working on, but I can only hope that it's a  
> better one than that of the latex/ruby bundle style completion,  
> which I find to be pretty useless.
>
> Now, OCaml does have an advantage here in that the default mode of  
> operation is to use modules and not classes, allowing for an easier  
> narrowing of possible completions in most cases, but still the  
> notion of having to hit escape 15 times to get the right function,  
> and then to not have the parameters appear as well is, frankly, a  
> step (or three) in the wrong direction.
>
> Of course, at the moment it doesn't appear to do anything, and one  
> of the commands relies on cmigrep which isn't included with the  
> bundle, so who knows where it's going...
>
> William D. Neumann

option-escape in Ruby now does an intelligent completion menu.
option-escape in CSS, HTML & Prototype Js now does a menu too.
Way totally crappy compared to xcode and CSSEdit, but better than  
nothing.

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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