Re: [gedit-list] GtkSourceView Popup

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi gmail com>]

Hi Chuchi,
	I thinks that this feature would be a very nice addition to gedit and
gtksourceview.

I think we need a "autocompletion" framework that various autocompletion
sources can use to suggest autocompletion items.

I think we need an interface "AutocompletionSource" that the various
autocompletion sources must implement.

An autocompletion source registers itself with the document (or may be
with the view, I still need to figure this point). When the document (or
view) needs to obtain a list of possible autocompletion items, it
queries all the autocompletion sources to build a list (note that we
need some way to prioritize items).

If the list is longer than one, then an autocompletion popup is shown to
the user.

I suggest you to first try to design such framework and post the design
here for discussion.

Then we will figure how to implement it in such a way that will allow it
to be first included in gedit and then, when it will be mature, to be
moved to gtksourceview.

Ciao,
Paolo


On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 10:49 +0100, perriman wrote:
> Hi all!!
> 
> I'm thinking in develop an autocompletion popup for GtkSourceView
> (Perhaps GtkTextView). The idea is develop a popup that you can get it
> various "loader" from externals application that provide it the
> autocompletion items. There are two autocompletion types:
> 
> 1.- Automatic: Show automaitic autocompletion when the user writes three
> letters. This is util for C symbols, python function names etc.
> 
> 2.- Manual autocompletion: The user press control+Return and we show the
> popup. This is util for snippets etc.
> 
> There are two autocompletion ways:
> 
> 1.- Get autocompletion items when we show the popup and the listeners or
> loaders filter its content before show the popup.
> 
> 2.- Get autocompletion all items when the loader is asigned to the
> GtkSourceViewPopup, save the items in memory and the popup filter the
> items when popup is shown.
> 
> 
> What do you think about??
> 
> I'm trying to analize this GtkSourceView assistant to make it usable for
> all applications and make easy to add new "loaders" to this.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Chuchi
> 
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