[Qt-creator] command-completion

[Israel Brewster]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Daniel Molkentin wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> ext Patrick Scheller schrieb:
>> On both Mac and Vista I see that the word/command completion only  
>> works forwards not backwards. That would be very desirable though  
>> to be able to use the backspace-key and correct a word and still  
>> have the completion drop-down working.
>
> We are considering to add this, but we are not sure if it is really
> helpful or more annoying if the completion box pops up too often, also
> if you do not want it (you can always press Ctrl+Space it get it back)

If this is about what I think it is, please, please PLEASE add this.  
For one thing, it is the behavior of every other auto-complete I have  
run across. For another thing, I can't count the number of times in a  
day where I start typing something, get the auto-complete drop down  
(good) and then mis-type the second or third character, causing me to  
loose the auto-complete box. Now not only do I have to hit backspace  
and retype the character, I now also have to hit ctrl+space to get the  
auto-complete box back- very, very very annoying. I fail to see how  
anyone who likes the auto-complete feature in general would NOT want  
this. But then, maybe I am just weird.

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>
>
>> Something I'm still missing which is one of the great features of  
>> the SlickEditor (www.slickedit.com) is the tagging of foreign code  
>> libraries. So by such a feature I could let Creator tag the Boost  
>> lib and have later command-completion and even inline help access  
>> to it. That greatly helps.
>
> If you add Boost to the include libraries in the project file, Creator
> should just pick them up for completion. There is no need for a  
> specific
> tagging action. If it still does not work for you, it would be nice if
> you could send me a small test project off-list so we can check if  
> it is
>  a bug in our code.
>
> Cheers,
>   Daniel
> -- 
> Daniel Molkentin, Software Engineer,
> Nokia Qt Software, www.qtsoftware.com
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