State of documentation

[Olivier JG]

On 05/30/2011 06:36 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
>
> Do you happen to know the answer to the other question I had: How to
> *automatically* get auto-completion, without having to do Ctrl+Space?
Kate's built-in completion by default is set to appear after three 
characters, this is configurable in "Settings > Configure Editor > 
Editing > Auto Completion"
Kate's built-in completion is just words that already exist in the 
current document (I'm quite sure, though maybe also language keywords 
once the filetype is established).

KDevelop's completion comes from various language support plugins, which 
can be used after a given file has been saved (so it can check the 
filetype and use the correct language support).
KDevelop's completion is set to appear as you type, right away, pretty 
much everywhere that it could possibly complete something. This is 
configurable in "Settings > Configure KDevelop > Language Support".
In your case, make sure "Enable Automatic Invocation" is set, I suppose, 
though that should be default, so that's a little odd.
Also, by default KDevelop's completion is set to "Minimal Automatic 
Completion", which means that just the basic information is shown (just 
the function name, with an appropriate icon) unless you call it manually 
(with ctrl-space). This will look similar to Kate completion (except 
with icons), but it will have full semantic analysis behind it, so it 
should still show any item that would be valid at that location (perhaps 
this is the confusion you have).
KDevelop's "Full completion" additionally shows the type for each entry, 
and in the case of function entries, also the arguments they take. Also, 
if you are curently filling in the arguments to a function, full 
completion will have an additional info-box above the cursor that will 
show you the current argument you are working on.
KDevelop's code completion should also bring-to-top and highlight in 
green any completion items that match the currently expected type in 
both minimal and full completion, known as "best-matches".
You can set KDevelop to use:
"Always minimal completion" - Never show "Full Completion"
"Minimal automatic completion" - Only show "Full Completion" when 
manually called (ie, ctrl-space)
or "Always full completion" - Always show "Full Completion"

Hope that helps,

-Olivier JG