Intellisense (tm)
Kevin Burton
burton at relativity.yi.org
Thu Jun 17 23:21:31 BST 1999
I would agree. This is a huge benefit!!!
A lot of IDEs have this support.
EMacs has syntax completion support (according to my co-worker) so it
might be easy to take a chuck of that code and add it to KDevelop.
I would also volunteer to work on this if no one else wants to.
Kevin
> John Zedlewski wrote:
>
> Well, I've been using KDevelop 0.3.1 for a little while now, and I
> have to say that I'm extremely impressed (downloading 0.4 tonight).
> There are really two IDE features that eliminate a huge amount of
> wasted time for me: a great class browser (which KDev certainly has),
> and some kind of syntax completion, like Intellisense in MS Visual
> products. You know how it goes, if I have a KTreeList object called
> "tree", and I type in "tree." on a new line, all the available methods
> and members of tree pop up in a little window. Then if I fill it in
> to "tree.insertItem(" a list pops up showing me what parameters the
> inserItem method takes. Nobody can remember every parameter list for
> every obscure class, and this really saves me from switching back and
> forth between documentation and my program.
> Is anybody working on such a feature for KDevelop right now? If so, do
> they need any help? If not, would anybody mind my giving it a shot
> (I'll probably have a few stupid questions, but I've looked through
> the code and I think I know how to go about it)?
> Thanks, and congratulations on a great product!
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