Auto-completion "eats" next symbol

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Julien Desgats <julien.desgats at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
> I've noticed a particularly disturbing behavior (bug?) on
> auto-completion : when you type something while there is characters
> after cursor, they are erased until the end of word if you use
> auto-completion.
>
> For instance if you have ("][" is the cursor)
>   f][bar(0);
> And auto-completion suggest "foo", if you validate that suggestion,
> you will get :
>   foo(][0);
> As you can see, the "bar" symbol has been erased. I think the correct
> behavior should be :
>   foo][bar(0);
> or
>   foo(][bar(0);
>
> But if you are in the following situation :
>   f][ bar(0);  // notice the space between the cursor and "bar"
> The result of auto-completion will be :
>   foo(][) bar(0);
>
> As a result, I'm constantly forced to add spaces in such situations to
> avoid auto-completion to eat existing symbols !
>
> So, what do you think about this idea of improvement ?
>
> Regards,
> Julien
>
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I've considered that many times. It's definitely easy to fix, I like it when
I can just change the current word by triggering the completion.

What do others think?

Aleix
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