[TxMt] Completion Nib

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Joachim Mårtensson wrote:

>> What would need to happen is that while you're typing you can open up
>> the completion panel, but keep on typing.
>> 	Escape would banish the panel
>> 	Up and down would move the selection in the completion list
>> 		and insert the rest of what you're typing
>> 		and select it
>> 	right would banish the list and keep the currently selected  
>> completion
>> 	etc...
>>
>> Is that at all doable?
> You can not update the TextMate editor when running a command or  
> plug-in,
> in other words typing in TextMate to reduce the list of completion is
> currently impossible. What you could do is move the typing to an  
> external
> textfield that would in turn reduce the list of completions. To me
> personally that is not worth investing time and effort in, since I  
> would
> imagine that it would be difficult not to disrupt the flow of  
> editing when
> suddenly your typing is thrown into a different editing context. I   
> think
> Allan is planning on adding shrink-list-as-you-type-completion in  
> TM2.0.
>
> Joachim Mårtensson

Oh well,
I shall wait for Allan then.

I guess I could keep myself busy by rewriting Javascript from scratch  
or something.

thomas Aylott

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