Auto-completion "eats" next symbol

[Ciprian Ciubotariu]

Hello. I am also interested in this modification, since most of the time I am annoyed by the eating. I'm a C++ developer only though.

I think best would be to examine usage scenarios and quick workarounds:

1. It eats next word and I want it to. This is the current behavior and is perfect for this case.
2. It eats next word and I don't want it to. 
 
Workaround 1: after completion I have to retype the word. This involves breaking my line of thought in order to remember the word, so it sucks.
Workaround 2: cut+paste: Exit auto-completion (esc), select the existing word (ctrl+shift+right), cut (ctrl+x), hit ctrl+enter to retrigger completion, select the desired completion, navigate to proper position and paste (ctrl+v). Make sure to do that before emptying clipboard.
Workaround 3: before triggering the completion to add a space, go back, hit ctrl+enter (or +space?), complete the word, navigate around the possibly added parenthesis and delete the space.

3. It doesn't eat next word, but I want it to. 

Workaround: Hit enter to complete the word, navigate around possible paranthesis, select word (ctrl+shift+right) and delete it (del).

4. It doesn't eat next word and I don't want it to. Again, nothing more to do.

I feel the workaround for option 3 is easier to perform than any of those for option 2. 

Might be an idea to add a configuration option checkmark in the autocompletion dialog-box as well. Again, a better idea would be to have per-project/per-session/global configuration options for any of KDevelop's behaviors, but that's another story.

On Thursday 09 December 2010 17:09:23 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> I have been a KDevelop user for months (years?) using it for PHP and 
> C/C++ and at least for me that behavior is annoying 95% of the time (to 
> do not say 100%).
> 
> I've asked to my colleages at the office, this is the result:
> 
> Javier: It is not annoying for me, I'm used to (Uses KDevelop for PHP)
> Juanjo: It is annoying 60% of the time, I'm not totally used to add an 
> space to avoid the behavior (Uses KDevelop for PHP)
> Ereslibre: When I'm writing C/C++ it is 100% annoying, when editing PHP 
> I don't notice it.
> 
> Seems that in languages like PHP where the variables always start with a 
> special symbol ($) the behavior is not annoying, but in languages such 
> cpp, it is.
> 
> 
> 
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