[j-devel] Bug 1105740 (code completion)

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

Bug 1105740:

    Initial Comment:
    Hi,

    J is a great editor and it can be even greater if code 
    completion support for classes is added to the editor. 
    I like to know when code completion will be available.

    example

    MyClass my;

    my.   ---> should give the methods and data members
                   when pressing the dot.

    thanks

    Johan den Boer

Thanks for your comments.

Unfortunately, I don't plan to implement this feature.

I don't get much time to work on j these days, and code completion,
done right, is a big project, even if we're just talking about Java
mode.

For one thing, the database of the code you plan to take completions
from would need to be implemented a bit differently from j's current
approach for such things, which tries to be both unobtrusive and
tolerant of code that doesn't quite parse.

This is really the province of a Java IDE, which can afford to put a
lot of effort into such a database and leverage it for a variety of
language-specific features. J isn't really trying to be an IDE, and
tries to provide balanced support for more languages.

And as Pete rightly suggests, if such a feature ever got into j there
would definitely be a way to turn it off... :)

Thanks again for your comments!

-Peter