Please, raise your hand if you'd like...

[Adam Treat]

Hey all, I just blogged this:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/919

Please, raise your hand if you’d like: 

* Color syntax highlighting in KDevelop’s code completion?

* Icons in the entry list corresponding to the entry type … ctor, dtor, 
method, member, etc, etc?

* Some sorting by entry type so all ctor’s come first, dtor’s next, etc, etc?

* The ability to specify what parts of the entry are “completeable” eg, if I’m 
completing a method decl I don’t necessarily want to key the return type?

If so, then the following changes will need to be made to KTE Completion 
interfaces: 

* KTE::CompletionEntry needs methods for specifying an icon to go with the 
entry and comparison operator overloads to allow sorting by entry type. It 
also needs some way of specifying that a prefix/postfix should be inserted 
upon completion, but not part of the actual keying. 

* KTE::CodeCompletionInterface needs methods for determining if the current 
completion box isvisible and hiding methods. 

The color syntax highlighting could be done in a couple different ways. 
KDevelop could do specify the individual entries in richtext, but the 
interface would have to know that it is doing so and render it accordingly. I 
am working on katepart’s KateCompletionItem (subclasses QListBoxText 
currently) to see if I can get it to render richtext. Another alternative is 
to have the interface entirely responsible for highlighting. Presumably 
katepart could do this, but the highlighting might not be as rich since 
KDevelop knows more about the C++ syntax than Kate. Regardless, I think these 
things would be pretty cool and it’d be nice to have them before KDE 4, but I 
don’t know. Perhaps if enough hands are raised… :) 

I think this would be pretty hard to make BC, but you guys would know better 
than me.

Cheers,
Adam