Auto-completion "eats" next symbol

[Davide]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 15:17:04 Julien Desgats 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
I agree with you. It is usually annoying.