Re: Can you specify the No. of chars before SourceView Completion window is displayed?

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty suddenlinkmail com>]

On 07/28/2018 03:35 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
>   I have implemented word completion with GtkSourceView, but I cannot find a
> simple way to prevent the provider and proposals from popping up until 3 (or
> more) characters are typed? Is there an easier way to adjust this rather than
> counting chars with an iter from every begins_word and blocking the display of
> the completion window until the desired number of characters have been typed?

Found it.

  In the SourceView version I'm using in the (*Undocumented* in 2.11)
completion-providers/words subdirectory of the source,
gtksourcecompletionwordsbuffer.h exposes:

void gtk_source_completion_words_buffer_set_minimum_word_size (
                            GtkSourceCompletionWordsBuffer *buffer,
                            guint size);


that can be used to set the "minimum-word-size" property. You can also set the
property directly with g_object_set called on the GtkSourceCompletionWords
provider. The default value is 2. Setting to 3 does just what I wanted.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.