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NeurodataWithoutBorders / matnwb

A Matlab interface for reading and writing NWB files
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Improve tab completion if possible #12

Closed mcafaro closed 5 years ago

mcafaro commented 6 years ago

Tab completion is an important part of discovery (for me at least). However, with all the subsref and properties trickiness, tab completion no longer works when you're navigating deeply within a hierarchy:

>> f = nwbfile;
>> ts = types.TimeSeries;
>> f.acquisition.timeseries = types.untyped.Group;
>> f.acquisition.timeseries.test_timeseries = ts;
>> f.acquisition.timeseries.  % Tab completion says "No Completions Found" here

It would be great if this worked. It may not be possible but maybe someone can investigate it.

lawrence-mbf commented 5 years ago

As of now, there is almost no subsref used in matnwb so tab completion in classes work intuitively. The only aspect limiting tab completion is found in constrained Set objects which are map-backed. The new elision rules in MatNWB 0.2.1 onwards also helps in flattening the hierarchy in general.