[TxMt] Re: Help funding my TextMate 2 code sprint

[Elia Schito]

Just for the record avian-missing uses a preference to intercept the completion: 

https://github.com/elia/avian-missing.tmbundle/blob/master/Preferences/Completion:%20Character%20Class%20indifferent.tmPreferences

Elia

On Mar 26, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-03-26 00:39, Meryn Stol wrote:
>> While I guess internal changes would would be necessary to support a
>> variety of parsers, I don't think increased autocompletion accuracy
>> requires a new API, or am I mistaken? I think a bundle command could
>> could just take the entire file contents plus the caret position as
>> input for a script. Script could parse the source code by itself, then
>> return some suggestions (using Dialog2).
> 
> I guess the script could invoke libclang or similar. But it doesn't sound like a good idea to have to invoke an external process each time you want autocompletion and certainly not for syntax highlighting. That would be really, REALLY slow. A lexer needs to be extremely fast.
> 
> -- 
> /Jacob Carlborg
> 
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