[wingide-users] auto-completion

[Wingware Support]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Lee Connell wrote:
> I know there is contributions for setting up auto-completion for pygtk, what 
> about twisted or something similar.  Is there any plans for building 
> auto-completion right into the wingware ide similar to what monodevelop is 
> doing which works very well?
> 
> I find auto-completion extremely helpful to finding new methods etc... as I 
> am learning and programming.  This IDE rocks i'm just missing this very 
> convenient feature :)
> 
> Any input on this would be appreciated.

We are looking at two different ways to extract type information from 
extension modules:  Static analysis and loading in introspecting the 
module in a separate process space.  We've traditionally tried to 
avoid the latter as a design principle, to avoid unwanted side effects 
when modules do real work at the top level and so that auto-completion 
works with flawed or unloadable code.  But it may be we need to resort 
to it to do extension modules well.

As usual, I can't give any promises as to time frame but we do view 
this as pretty important.

Stephan Deibel

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