[Gretl-devel] Re: annoying buggy behavior of editor's auto-completion

Am 03.12.2020 um 23:02 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> This is a quite distracting PITA. Is this a GTK problem? An obvious >> workaround is to switch off auto-completion, or get used to typing a >> superfluous space at the end before the return. > > This "service" is provided by gtksourceview. It seems to work not too > badly with gtksourceview-3.0 (companion of GtK 3) but on Linux using > Gtk 2 + gtksourceview-2.0 I can replicate the broken behaviour you > describe. (Regardless of further problems, it's already broken to > offer "series" as a completion of "da".) > > I suppose we need to either backport a fix from gtksourceview-3.0, if > possible, or remove the autocompletion option for gretl builds that > use Gtk 2. I don't think it's worth the effort to do a backport - also perhaps someday even the Windows build might use Gtk 3. > > I can't say I find this facility very useful even in Gtk 3: it has no > notion of hansl context and just works with a flat list of previously > typed words. Well yes, it could work better. (Remember also the other problem that keyboard shortcuts to select among several proposals don't seem to work.) But if you have a bunch of longer identifiers it's still useful and avoids typos I'd say.