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List:       ktexteditor-devel
Subject:    Re: Completion-Interface
From:       Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2008-04-19 20:45:16
Message-ID: 200804192245.16887.cullmann () babylon2k ! de
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Am Samstag 19 April 2008 22:41:46 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> On 18.04.08 20:44:42, Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Friday 18 April 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > Thats wrong, it puts in a bunch of things that can be used for
> > > completion of a couple of languages and even non-code completion.
> >
> > But the implementation ASSUMES that the client needs a lot of stuff that
> > is useless in more cases than useful.
> >
> > Requirements:
> > * the list can not be a dialog. put your configuration buttons in the
> > configuration dialog
>
> Yes, the ui is too complex. While its cool that we can provide all that
> information I really think that when you want some completion you only
> want to be able to pick the right entry, which means having the basic
> needed information - for C++ thats the signature of the function or the
> type and similar. For a code-snippet its probably the first n characters
> of the text.
>
> > * Do not show empty widgets: NEVER display empty columns, NEVER display
> > unnamed groups!
>
> I'm not even sure how to create unnamed groups right now, but not
> providing any group name works fine. About the empty columns I don't
> know. So far I didn't yet see an empty completion widget.
Just enable the word-completion plugin of kate and start typing, it will often 
get empty, as soon as you start type a word it wants to complete but then 
continue to have no match, widget will stay, but empty.

cu
Christoph


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Christoph Cullmann
KDE Developer, Kate Maintainer
http://babylon2k.de, cullmann@kde.org
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