Hi,
Joachim Mårtensson wrote a marvelous extension to tm_dialog - the code completion popup. (See his mail http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2007- August/021853.html)
Now I had the idea to enhance it a bit in respect of file/path name completion and a word completion based on cocoa's spell checker dictionaries.
#### File/Path completion: tmCommand: "$DIALOG" -f -p '{pathcompletion=YES;}' Input: None Output: Show as Tool Tip (for errors messages)
It turns out that this is the fastest way to insert a path I ever saw ;) If you type '/App' it will start there and inserts the longest match automatically. If the current document is saved and you type ' ' it starts at TM_DIRECTORY. Is there TM_SUPPORT_PATH or TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT before the caret and you type e.g. ' ' it starts at the given path. The popup window doesn't disappear if I inserted an item. Instead it shows the content of the inserted path.
#### Word Completion tmCommand: "$DIALOG" -f -p '{wordcompletion=YES;lang=nl_NL;}' or "$DIALOG" -f -p '{wordcompletion=YES;lang=en_GB;}' Input: None Output: Show as Tool Tip (for errors messages)
By my opinion it's better than cocoa's built-in completion ;) It also doesn't disappear if I append a new character to my word or if I delete a character. Instead it shows new suggestions.
A demo can be found at: http://www.bibiko.de/TM_completion.mov (2.6MB)
Some tiny things have to be done but the tentative code works. If I fixed them I will post the changes to Joachim. He will commit it to the http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/branches/Dialog%20PlugIn% 20Completion%20Menu/ branch.
My question is whether there are other possibilities to use this extraordinary extension. One idea would be to feed this popup window with TM's internal completion list but up to now I didn't find a way to have access to it (Allan?).
Comments, suggestions?
Cheers,
Hans