Difference between revisions of "CDT/Obsolete/C editor enhancements/Camel-case completion"

Revision as of 09:51, 17 May 2010

This is a problem page. Please treat it as a discussion page and feel free to insert your comments anywhere. My open questions are in bold--Tomasz Wesołowski 13:40, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Description

When using context assist, many symbols with a similar beginning of name may exist. A solution to select one of them quickly is to search the proposals by their abbreviation as an alternative to searching by beginning of the name. This allows to find the desired proposal more quickly often, especially for long names.

Ranking

Category: editing

Importance: 3/5 --Tomasz Wesołowski 13:40, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Please append your opinion here.

Solution

This feature can be implemented in a way similar to JDT. It must also be taken into account that camelCase is only one convention in C++ and underscore_case is also popular.

An expected behaviour for giving context assist options of a text 'get' would be to give context assist results in a way similar to:

getSomething        // match by name start
giveExampleText     // match by camel case
give_example_text   // match by underscore case
GIVE_EXAMPLE_TEXT   // match by capital underscore case

Matches by name start shall have higher priority than matches by abbreviation.

The size of characters shall be ignored while matching (i.e. only be used to find word boundaries to determine the abbreviation, but not for filtering the results.

This approach would be a bit different than JDT, but allows to select some_symbol and someSymbol in an uniform way - do you find this way preferred or do you prefer strict case sensitivity here, like sS for someSymbol and ss (or even s_s) for some_symbol? Please provide use cases.

References

Bug 173458 and Bug 223625 request this feature.