[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.
thanks
sven