Auto-completion "eats" next symbol

[Andras Mantia]

On Thursday, December 09, 2010 15:41:58 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?

I'm also annoyed by the current behavior, so if it is easy to fix, i vote 
for it.


Andras