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kilon.alios

Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

As a next step for my project Ephestos , I want to mess with auto-completion. My goal is for auto completion to give priority to the Ephestos packages. This way the Ephestos users will get recommended first auto completion of Ephestos classes and methods, I will then add a line to separate those from the rest of Pharo recommendations.

I could customise this further to accomodate for any package inside pharo thus making the autocompletion prioritise your packages and classes/methods. Is there any interest for something like that ?

If there is then I could make it into a separate Pharo project and make it easy to install via Package Browser (Pharo 5 configuration browser) . If there is no interest then I can keep it as part of my project and not do the extra work for separating the code.

I also welcome any advice and recommendation on how to achieve this by people who already hacked auto completion. I already study the NECompletion package so I have a general idea but so far have not figure out how to priorotise recommendations.

webwarrior

Re: Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

I have interest in customized auto-completion.
It would be also cool if it was possible to assign customized auto-completion to some instvars/arguments (for example based on knowlege about what their type is expected to be).

Attila Magyar

Re: Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

It would be really nice to have real message completion in the debugger/inspector/workspace where the types of the variables are known. For example, when I'm debugging a method and an instance variable is already initialized to a String, then the auto completion could show me only the messages associated to a Strings instead of showing everything in the image.

Attila Magyar

Re: Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

Attila Magyar wrote

It would be really nice to have real message completion in the debugger/inspector/workspace where the types of the variables are known. For example, when I'm debugging a method and an instance variable is already initialized to a String, then the auto completion could show me only the messages associated to a Strings instead of showing everything in the image.

This is how it works in Python. After evaluating the first line the variable a becomes a list, so in the second line only list methods are shown.

python repl

stepharo

Re: Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

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I agree!
I would really like to have another pass done on the ecompletion.

Stef

Le 19/8/15 19:04, Attila Magyar a écrit :

> It would be really nice to have real message completion in the
> debugger/inspector/workspace where the types of the variables are known. For
> example, when I'm debugging a method and an instance variable is already
> initialized to a String, then the auto completion could show me only the
> messages associated to a Strings instead of showing everything in the image.
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Denis Kudriashov

Re: Customised auto-completion to give priority to specific packages

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2015-08-19 19:04 GMT+02:00 Attila Magyar <[hidden email]>:

It would be really nice to have real message completion in the
debugger/inspector/workspace where the types of the variables are known. For
example, when I'm debugging a method and an instance variable is already
initialized to a String, then the auto completion could show me only the
messages associated to a Strings instead of showing everything in the image.

Future is close. Playground already provides such completion. Try type "1 ab" and you will see only messages from numbers.