April 16, 2003
A programmers language editor
Am I the only one who wishes there was word completion in the document editor they use for email or any other non coding writing they do.
It would be dictionary based of course and the tense currently used in sentence to formulate the dropdown list. How cool would that be? Sometimes MS Word does it with todays date and such.
I can't tell you how many times I've begun typing words and pressed ctrl-space to complete the word I was typing or ctrl-w to highlight surrounding text and closed or almost closed the damn document I was editing.
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Andre Mermegas
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April 16, 2003 09:21 PM
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vim, my friend.
vim, the vi clone does exactly that. By default, it completes any word in the current buffer or any buffer you edited during that session. You can configure it to use a dictionary or something else. Most UNIX-y things can use any text-mode editor for editing, and vim, obviously, can be used. Additionally, vim has a GUI mode on all major platforms and even has an OLE version that allows you to use it with visual C++!
I edit everything except for textarea's in vim. There's no reason to leave it.
OH yeah, it has indenting, syntax highlighting and integrated make/ant and error browsing for a TON of languages. Check it out
http://www.vim.org
(BTW, I'm sure Emacs does all this too)
Hrm, i'm not sure you get what i'm saying i want it to complete words for me like, "opportunities".
I start typing "opp" hit ctrl-space like you do in IDEA or most IDE's or whatever and then if there is only one possibility will complete the word or present a tense sensitive dropdown list.
I'm set for code completion, I just want random word completion. So I dont have to type out longer words in non-coding environments such as email or word or whatever.
We are working on something like that. Stay tuned :)
