Intellisense (tm)

[holle at almaden.ibm.com]

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Kevin Burton <burton at relativity.yi.org> on 17/06/99 15:21:31

Please respond to kdevelop at fara3.cs.uni-potsdam.de

To:   kdevelop at fara3.cs.uni-potsdam.de
cc:    (bcc: Holger Lehmann/Almaden/Contr/IBM)
Subject:  Re: Intellisense (tm)





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!