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| Summary: | During "code completion" single TAB key sometimes completes rather than common-prefix | ||
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| Product: | editor | Reporter: | err <err> |
| Component: | Completion & Templates | Assignee: | Dusan Balek <dbalek> |
| Status: | VERIFIED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | ||
| Version: | 8.1 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
Common prefix completion should respect case sensitivity - fixed in jet-main. http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/72db07b24527 As for the option for switching off the tab completion - please file a new enhancement please. Integrated into 'main-silver', will be available in build *201503130001* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-silver/rev/72db07b24527 User: Dusan Balek <dbalek@netbeans.org> Log: Issue #251017: During "code completion" single TAB key sometimes completes rather than common-prefix - fixed. |
Problem on both 8.0.2 and dev This is a .java file. NOTE: "case sensitive code completion" is not checked. To reproduce: - in any method enter: cla<Ctrl-Space> - let the completion options come up - enter <tab> Observe that the result is (| shows the cursor after the space) class | Expect class| and the code completion window to stay up Since NOT case sensitive, should not complete, expect common prefix completion. It's been a while since I've done a lot of work with NB. Maybe the fix for Bug 208223 broke things. I find I've been doing a lot more typing because of what tab does during completion. BTW, I think Bug 208223 is a big mistake. It's like dumbing down the editor so that it behaves like IDEA. Have an option maybe, but unconditionally changing the behavior, causes more typing (at least for me). Consider - enter Il<Ctrl-space> observe list of several exceptions - enter <tab> observe filling in common prefix - note: if <tab> entered again at this point completion finishes It could be argued that since the highlighted item shares a common prefix that prefix should be completed. Better to do nothing. - Consider this one, enter Illegal<ctrl-space> observe about 6 items, - enter a observe the list goes down to three items. In this case I want one of the illegalaccess choices so I quickly - enter <tab> and it completes, even though the highlighted item has a long common prefix with the next item. I made a mistake. (I should have entered "ac<tab>".) If nothing had happened it's easily fixed, I can just enter the "C", but not so easy if it completes. I can file this 2nd part about wanting to turn off "<tab>" completion, if that would be better. Let me know.