On 17-aug-2007, at 19:00, Joachim Mårtensson wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have written a more Xcode like completion extension for tm_dialog. My
guess is that this is of interrest to more people than me. The code has
not been commited yet, but I have made a screencast to show of some of the
functionallity.
[ http://mail.mac.se/joachimm/TextMateCodeCompletionEnhancements.mov ]
, right now I am looking for suggestions for the programmatic and user
interface.
Wow, this looks so promising. I can't wait to start using it.
Without mimicking Xcode too much, I think the user interface could improve.
My suggestions:
a. the bounding box of the dialog popup should be as small as possible, i.e. decrease the height of the window as the number of completions shrink.
b. the dialog popup window could be slightly transparent and would be nice if it would fade in.
c. the arguments to a function (the parts of the snippet that should be filled in by the user) could have a different style (italic?) or colour (greyish?) from the non-volatile parts of the function (the function name, the parentheses, etc)
d. the addition of a little icon in front of the completion, indicating whether it is a C function, a objective-C method, a constant, a class, etc. (I know this sooo xcode, but I think it's very useful).
Finally: when does this completion window pop up? When you stop typing for a 0.8 seconds (and if *has* available completions)? Or do you have to invoke it with a special key combo?
I would very much like the former one, combined with the disappearance of the completion window if no key is pressed in the following 2 seconds. (plus a way to customize these time preferences or disable the automatic popup behavior).
best regards
dirk
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Dirk van Oosterbosch
de Wittenstraat 225
1052 AT Amsterdam
the Netherlands
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