Shouldn't this be confirmed to be a bug and not intended behavior before asking for an ETA for a fix. Personally, I'd think this is intended behavior, and would hate to see tab completion overwrite existing data. Just think about things like bash that behave the same with overwite mode on.
On 9/19/05, Caio Chassot k@v2studio.com wrote:
Any ETA on a fix?
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On 19/09/2005, at 13.02, Robert Deaton wrote:
Shouldn't this be confirmed to be a bug and not intended behavior before asking for an ETA for a fix. Personally, I'd think this is intended behavior, and would hate to see tab completion overwrite existing data. Just think about things like bash that behave the same with overwite mode on.
I agree... and what is overwrite mode good for anyway, by the way? :-p.
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On Sep 19, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Sune Foldager wrote:
I agree... and what is overwrite mode good for anyway, by the way? :-p.
ASCII diagrams or anal-retentive-attention-to-cosmetic-formatting are the only cases I've ever used it for. The only sort of case where I can imagine combining overwrite mode with auto-complete would be a case like this:
function foo( ){ ... } // *** end foo *******************************************************
function beejergle_jaggle( ){ ... } // *** end beejergle_jaggle ******************************************
(For those not using a monospace font, there are the same number of characters in each comment line, where the longer function name has replaced asterisks.)
On 19/09/2005, at 14.46, Gavin Kistner wrote:
I agree... and what is overwrite mode good for anyway, by the way? :-p.
ASCII diagrams or anal-retentive-attention-to-cosmetic-formatting are the only cases I've ever used it for. The only sort of case where I can imagine combining overwrite mode with auto-complete would be a case like this: [...]
Yes, it's rare, but very nice when data is in columns and you need to edit one, or sometimes when you duplicate a print statement, and want to overwrite the leading part, but keep the padding so that the trailing stuff is at the same position (a tad like columns, and a tad like the comment example).
Autocomplete should overwrite while in overwrite mode (and so should paste really, though I wasn't sure initially) -- that said, I can't give any ETA on these things, but I may look at it later today.
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