Re: command completion project

[Sudeepam Pandey]

On 16 May 2018 4:23 p.m., "Richard Crozier" <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear Sudeempam,

The command completion project sounds pretty nice, but I do have one suggestion, how about fixing basic command completion for packages as part of the project too?

Command completion currently doesn't work for code in packages (by which I mean namespaces created by putting code in a folder starting with '+'). So if you put a function file myfunction.m in a folder like '+mypackage', you then call it on the command line like:

mypackage.myfunction

you can also nest package folders so it's like:

my_package.my_sub_package1.myfunction

my_package.my_sub_package2.myfunction

but Octave can't currently do code completion on the package namespaces as you type them. Ideally it should complete the first package name, then after the dot, suggest any subpackage names or functions in the package etc.

Regards,

Richard



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Thanks for the suggestions Richard. I'll check it out in a few days and get back to you with a more detailed reply.

Just for clearance, I hope you are using the term 'command completion' as a substitute for the term 'command suggestion' here? 

I have genrally used the term 'command completion' to refer to the autocomplete feature (such as by pressing tab) and not to the suggestion feature that I am working on (which would generate possible corrections for typing errors) and so I would like to make sure that we are talking about the same things here.