Always show completions when typing about autocomplete HOT 60 CLOSED

This is what I was looking in for...
Would really like this feature

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+1 for this

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+1000000 for this.

This will be the last reason of not switching from Sublime Text

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This option would be fantastic to have

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I'm going to give it a shot tonight. We could possibly make it an option.

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This will be a bit tricky.

• The autocomplete plugin is activated lazily on autocomplete:attach ctrl-space.
• The plugin uses SelectListView for the popup. The search input provided by SelectListView is unnecessary for completions as you type.

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I already played around with it a bit. I created a custom view without the input that appears automatically if completion suggestions are available. The problem is that, since the editor is focused, it receives all the control events (move up, move down), so controlling the list is not possible.

I did some dirty hack that monkeypatched the editor so that it ignores up and down movements when a control variable like Editor.disableVerticalMovement is set. But yeah, it's very dirty.

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I also tried to only remove the "lazy activation" part while keeping the input. Then I ran into some weird issue were selecting the previous and next items of the list works, but pressing enter would result in the editor adding a new line. But I guess that has something to do with the range selection voodoo that autocomplete does.

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@saschagehlich Can you push what you have? I have some ideas for bypassing the EditorView event handlers.

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@amccloud https://github.com/saschagehlich/autocomplete/tree/feature/live-autocomplete

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Some folks on the atom team would like this too. In order to do it properly, though, we'll need to make a couple changes in core. So it might take a bit to get done with everything else that's going on.

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@benogle What changes would that be? I'd like to do some monkeypatching to make it work temporarily, that's one big reason why I can't use atom.

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+1 rewrite the core from scratch if needed 😄

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+1

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Need this too! +1

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+1 so I can monitor this issue!

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@saschagehlich if you prevent the command events from bubbling out of the list the editor won't get them. You can return false from a jquery handler to do so.

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@benogle what core changes did you have in mind? the critical thing is it has to be really fast so we don't slow down typing since it will be evaluated frequently.

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I would love this too.

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+1 👍

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I created autocomplete-plus which is automatically activated when typing. It listens for the contents-modified event which is not triggered instantly but after a couple of milliseconds. It works pretty well, even with large files.

https://github.com/saschagehlich/autocomplete-plus

Still quite buggy though :(

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@saschagehlich Thanks for your work Sascha, but despite downloading and installing successfully it doesn't seem to work for me. Am I missing something?

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@jakehills Sorry, forgot to mention that you have to do npm install inside the autocomplete-plus folder. Adding it to the Readme now :)

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@saschagehlich That did the trick, thanks :) Your git link doesn't work however (new to git, so not sure why).. try $ git clone https://github.com/saschagehlich/autocomplete-plus.git

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@saschagehlich Thanks for plugin, though it seems to bring up inspector every time

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@jakehills Updated the readme, thanks
@DaveBlooman Yeah it's a known issue I'm working on. Some logic bug causes an internal exception in atom that causes the inspector to open.

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+1

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+1

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Hi all, please reduce the noise and stop +1'ning.
There is button to subscribe to this issue on the right side.

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+1 👍

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+1 to this. Is not only about autocompleting something, but knowing what you are typing is correct. If at some point the autocorrect stop showing suggestions, you know you mistyped something.

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👍 for this feature.

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look for autocomplete plus on Atom. Works like a charm! https://atom.io/packages/autocomplete-plus

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+1

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atomcomplete-plus is nice but with 2 main problems

1. it autocompletes everything... which is quite annoying, would be better to autocomplete by language
2. it doesn't chooses the autocomplete with "enter" only with "tab"

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^ I agree with what he said.

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This isn't really the place to discuss autocomplete-plus. It should be done on the page for that plugin, but you can customize any keys in Atom, so you can configure autocomplete-plus to complete with "enter" by adding this to your ~/.atom/keymap.cson:

'.autocomplete-plus input.hidden-input':
  'enter': 'autocomplete-plus:confirm'

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+1. It seems like a pretty basic piece of functionality for an editor intended for development use.

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+1 for this feature....

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Autocomplete-plus will at some point in the next few months replace autocomplete in core. There's no need to +1 this anymore, it's accepted and in-progress.

Here's the 1.0 tracking issue: atom/atom#3684
Here's the tracking issue for "autocomplete next": atom/atom#4364

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Ok sorry. Do you want to shut this thread then?
I stand corrected it is closed...

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@vimes1984 No reason to apologize - but I think I'll lock it now but wait to close it until the functionality makes it into core, that way people will see this issue and not open another.

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This package is deprecated and no longer shipped with Atom. If this is still an issue using the autocomplete-plus package, please open up a new issue on that repository, thanks.

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We should 🔥 this package

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