Change autocomplete binding

[imaia]

Hello, how can I change the autocomplete binding from enter to tab, disabling the enter action for triggering autocomplete? I usually use enter to change line and tab to confirm autocomplete.

[rokf]

You'd still like for the tab to work normally when there is no pattern in front that could be completed?

Then a small custom function would've to be written that checks the current context at the cursor. If it matches anything useful on tab then do editor-complete, otherwise editor-smart-tab.

Otherwise, if you do not need tab you could add the following snippet to your init.lua configuration file.

howl.bindings.push {
  editor = {
    tab = 'editor-complete'
  }
}

[italomaia]

You'd still like for the tab to work normally when there is no pattern in front that could be completed?

Yes, I would. By the way, how can I not trigger autocomplete on pushing "enter"? Just have a normal enter behavior.

Then a small custom function would've to be written that checks the current context at the cursor. If it matches anything useful on tab then do editor-complete, otherwise editor-smart-tab.

Any suggestions on how to do that?

[rokf]

The dot is there because it is not included inside the word pattern the Lua bundle uses. This means that when there is either a dot or something that counts as a new word completion triggers, otherwise it runs the editor-smart-tab command. To work for a broader set of languages this might have to be tweaked a bit (especially the dot part).

howl.bindings.push {
  editor = {
    tab = function (editor)
      if editor.current_context.word_prefix == "" and editor.current_context.prev_char ~= "." then
        howl.command["editor-smart-tab"]()
      else
        howl.command["editor-complete"]()
      end
    end
  }
}

Regarding the enter question, you mean you'd like to go to the next element in the autocomplete popup instead of choosing the highlighted option when pressing enter?

[imaia]

When I press enter, I wish to just go to the next line in text. That is the same behavior vscode gives me and as I'm used to it I would rather keep it.

[rokf]

Just like this?

howl.bindings.push {
  editor = {
    ['return'] = 'cursor-down'
  }
}

Or with an additional move to the beginning or end of line?

howl.bindings.push {
  editor = {
    ['return'] = function (e)
      howl.command['cursor-down']()
      howl.command['cursor-home']()
      -- or this: howl.command['cursor-line-end']()
    end
  }
}

[italomaia]

Any chance for further side effects? Shouldn't I change the return behavior only when a autocomplete "window" pops-up? Any idea where can I see the whole mapping, @rokf ?

[rokf]

It is currently not possible to change the return behavior in a MenuPopup (such as the completion popup) via init file configuration. You'd have to change the howl/lib/howl/ui/menu_popup.moon file to do that. It might get configurable in the future.

[refi64]

You could probably monkey-patch the classes though...

[nilnor]

This has come up in the past, so I'm marking this as a feature request. I'm thinking we could probably cover most peoples needs by having an option for the different behaviours (which I believe is primarily whether to use tab or enter accepting completions, but another thing would be to support tabbing through items using tab as well).

[nilnor]

I implemented the simplest solution for this now, a new option popup_menu_accept_key that allows specifying either tab or return (covered in the docs here).