Auto-completion "eats" next symbol

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Thursday 09 Dec 2010 14:41:58 Aleix Pol wrote:
> 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

  Could not agree more - the auto completion is supposed to work best in the 
majority of cases, where right now it annoys in the majority of cases... While 
it does seem like a good idea on the surface to be editing the symbol you're 
on rather than adding a new one, it does seem to turn out that well, that just 
isn't the case. So yup, just as a user (not a usability guide here, this sort 
of thing would need testing we just don't really have the time for), i would 
certainly be glad to see the behaviour changed as suggested :)

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