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atombender / sublime_text_alternative_autocompletion

Adds TextMate-like autocompletion to Sublime Text 2 and 3.

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Needed with 2.0.2? #24

Closed ronlut closed 10 years ago

ronlut commented 10 years ago

Hi. Using sublime's default auto-complete (tab key and the popup), it produces pretty much the same behavior as described in the readme file of this repo. Am I missing something? Thanks a lot!

atombender commented 10 years ago

Sublime's default autocomplete shows a popup, this doesn't. Last I checked, it didn't cycle the selection like this plugin does.

ronlut commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I hope you understand I didn't mean to disrespect your work or something, just asking as I'm really new to sublime. I just checked with ST 2.0.2 without the alternative_autocompletion plugin, and pressing tab more than once cycles through the selection. Again, i'm pretty new so maybe my check isn't valid. What I did is close Sublime, delete the alternative_autocompletion from the Plugins folder and restart Sublime.

atombender commented 10 years ago

No worries. So you mean the tab completion, which doesn't use a popup. Well, there are some small but important differences.

ST cannot cycle backwards (there is no shift-tab).
If you move the cursor, it loses completion state.
ST is also a lot looser about what it considers a match. For example, if you type exe, it will complete that to execute but also to extension, which my plugin won't.

By the way, you should be using Package Control to install and uninstall packages, rather than working on the plugins folder manually.

ronlut commented 10 years ago

Thanks a lot for the clarification. Now I know why I do want your plugin! :relieved:

zengabor commented 10 years ago

Just for the record, this is my favorite plugin for Sublime Text. :)

atombender commented 10 years ago

Thanks, guys!

ccampbell commented 10 years ago

Yeah, if it weren't for this plugin I wouldn't have been able to switch away from TextMate. It still baffles me how people use Sublime with the default autocomplete.

I did a write up about it here before I discovered this extension: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5711

zengabor commented 10 years ago

Just curious: why did you switch away from TextMate?