[TxMt] Re: Bundles. How to: enable IDE style autocomplete ( function name + parameter snippets )

[Luke Daley]

Hi Aldo,

Are you planning on sharing your work?

On 11/09/2010, at 3:56 AM, Aldo Bucchi wrote:

> Hi Allan,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Allan Odgaard
> <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
>> On 31 Aug 2010, at 16:33, Aldo Bucchi wrote:
>> 
>>> [...]
>>> Sorry. I meant writing code. I just joined this list and I now realize
>>> there is a wide spectrum regarding coding skills. I can code ;)
>> 
>> Great :)
>> 
>> In that case, the main ingrediant is the dialog plug-in.
>> 
>> If you open a new TextMate document and press ⌃R on the following line:
>> 
>>    "$DIALOG" help
>> 
>> It will show the available options for “showing dialogs” (⌃R runs the
>> current line as a shell command).
>> 
>> More specifically you want to use the popup command ("$DIALOG" help popup).
>> 
>> I think the initial version of the Objectice-C completion was a simply
>> command¹ which did something like:
>> 
>>    #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>>    list = `grep "^$TM_CURRENT_WORD"
>> "$TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT/completions.tsf"`.split("\t")
>> 
>> Then used "$DIALOG" to show the matches (and insert the chosen one as a
>> snippet).
> 
> Works great ;)
> 
> Now, I am trying to push the envelope a bit.
> 
> I would love to provide a very verbose "display" text ( which includes
> not only the name of the item but also a description ).
> 
> So, today:
> 
> my_fun...
> shows popup menu with two items:
> ** my_function
> ** my_funnel
> selecting "my_function" inserts "my_function" and then triggers an
> "insert snippet"
> 
> Tomorrow:
> 
> my_fun...
> shows popup menu with two items:
> ** my_function( string a, string b ). some explanation
> ** my_funnel( string a ). some explanation
> selecting "my_function( string a, string b ). some explanation"
> inserts "my_function" and then triggers an "insert snippet"
> 
> I tried to achieve this, but the main issue is that Dialog.popup()
> inserts the "display" text by default. So I end up with:
> 
> "my_function( string a, string b ). some explanation. ( string, string b)"
> 
> where the second part is the snippet.
> 
> Having coded Eclipse and IDEA plugins, I'm impressed with the
> flexibility of the system.
> Of course I miss having a full blown parse tree to work with but... it
> feels like I can go 80% of the way with 20% of the effort.
> 
> Regards,
> A
> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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> 
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