Re: Tag typing.

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:03 -0600, Gabriel Burt wrote:
> Both of these updates work great - having it select the autocomplete
> text is great, being able to say "yes! that's the right tag" and press
> enter rocks too.
> 
> Just an idea, have you tried always autocompleting (perhaps after 2
> characters are entered) instead of waiting for the user to press tab? I
> think that could feel smoother and be faster, and if the user doesn't
> press enter, they can keep typing over the autocomplete text.

This is slightly harder than it sounds.  You can get partway there by
adding

        GLib.Idle.Add (new GLib.IdleHandler (delegate { DoTagCompletion
        (); return false; }));

to the end of HandleTagEntryChanged() but it will break backspace and
delete.

I like Aaron's changes too.

Nat