project autocomplete

Started by bindto, November 27, 2009, 03:28:25 PM

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bindto

has hippo possibility to autocomplete from many sources?

i mean , i have file1.cpp and file2.cpp. in file2 i have class WriteOut. is it possible to type in file1.cpp
Wr and get WriteOut  and after WriteOut.  methods ? 

alex

Hi bindto,

welcome on forum.

No. This is not possible right now.
Also HE is not dedicated C++ IDE (for example) but generic editor, so you will not get really intelligent language specific intelli sence. This was according completing of the method names for class WriteOut. HE can suggest method names, but it will mix method from other classes and objects (so not context dependent). Completion is only done based on prefix you typed and "style" at current position.
This were details about how it is now.

Generally HE knows "labels" from other open documents (it also harvest all non keywords) and will be able to suggest them, but this is not done yet. What you want is background parsing of files on disk from project. This does not exist yet, but maybe can be done in 1.5x. But also, the parsing results will not be very sophisticated...
Maybe better way will be to integrate ctags as plug-in and use it results for suggestions. This I am also evaluating, but only for 1.5x versions.

Best regards,
Alex.
HippoEDIT team
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