Hi Doru, On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
Hi,
OCompletion certainly improved the coding experience in Pharo. But, I have a couple of usability suggestions with OCompletion to make it better. It would be great if someone (Romain? :)) could act on them:
1. Right now, OCompletion is triggered both by Tab and by Enter. It should be only Tab.
Here is the reason. When I have a cascade, I want to have the methods starting from the next line, like this: browser mondrian title: 'Something'; painting: [:view ... ]
So, after I type browser mondrian, I naturally want to press Enter. However, there exists a method called mondrianAnnounce:, and when I press Enter it gets filled in. So, the intent of Enter should be similar to that of Space: just as a whitespace. Tab is a good choice for triggering the completion because we basically only use Tabs only in a new line where the completion does not apply.
Well, the completion with enter was requested by a few people, so we should reach a consensus.
2. When no completion is offered and I press tab, I do get some list. Why is this not offered by default? Is it because it is slower? Is it because it is the regular ECompletion and that is not useful?
It is the regular ECompletion, which is slower, and less useful.
3. The completion is triggered only when typing, but not when removing characters. I believe it would be better if it followed me all the time.
Good point!
4. When I want to navigate through the offered list using the down arrow the look changes and the items become wider. In fact, the same appears when I force completion by pressing Tab, so this leads me to believe that the change in the look is given by the change from O to E completion. The look should remain the same.
I thought about it and concluded that it may be good to differentiate them. As for the tab/enter issue, different people think differently. That's why we should reach a consensus on these two issues, so that I can decide whether I should remove these two features :-). Cheers, Romain
Cheers, Doru
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