[TxMt] Re: TextMate Code Completion

[thomas Aylott]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Dirk van Oosterbosch, IR labs wrote:

> As the final feature to list I also want to mention that I would be  
> a fan of *SubWordCompletion*. (This used to be a feature of Xcode,  
> but they removed it, unfortunately). With SubWordCompletion I mean  
> that it can also complete on *parts* of completion terms, without  
> leaving the completion modus, with the possibility to narrow down  
> on the completion term fast. An example:
> You're looking for NSNumberFormatterRoundDown.
> Then typing `NSNum ⇥ F ⇥ R ⇥ D ⇥` should be enough to make  
> the complete NSNumberFormatterRoundDown.
> This would the breakdown of the steps in the interface:
> 1. You type NSNum
> It completes to NSNumber
> 2. type ⇥
> It stays in completion mode, showing you all possible continuations  
> of NSNumber...  (Hit ⇥ again or hit enter to exit completion mode  
> and use NSNumber)
> 3. type F
> it completes to NSNumberFormatter
> 4. type ⇥
> you see NSNumberFormatter... and still stays in completion mode
> 5. type R
> it completes to NSNumberFormatterRound
> 6. type ⇥
> you see the 9 possible endings of NSNumberFormatterRound...
> 7. type D
> it completes to NSNumberFormatterRoundDown
> 8. type ⇥
> presto!
>
>
> I recognize that most of these features will not be simple to  
> implement, but please forgive me for being an idealist instead of a  
> pragmatist.
> Best,
> dirk

This can't work with tm_dialog--menu as it currently exists.
However!
all the tm_dialog source code is in the repo. I have no idea, but
could you extend the tm_dialog --menu to catch keystrokes and pass  
them back?
If so, then we could implement this functionality.

OR

We could use a custom nib inside of tm_dialog instead of the --menu
I think we could even use Allan's borderless panel subclass.
Then it would look a lot more like the normal code completion thing  
that every other cocoa app uses.

There have been a bunch of changes to tm_dialog lately, anyone know  
how doable this is?
I know there's something to keep the nib open while sending messages  
to and from it now.

thomas Aylott — design42 — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg



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