Re: From the LuxAsm list.

From: Percival (dragontamer5788_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:07:47 -0400

> Beth, said :
[snip]
> You can also see other features being really rather easy to implement,
> once
> this approach is taken...for instance, "auto complete" is just a case of
> actually putting up the "best guess so far" that the assembler makes while
> it"s looking up the symbol you"re typing in its symbol tables...allowing
> for some very speedy typing of programs, while not in any way discouraging
> long, meaningful identifier names...indeed, you"ll only necessarily
> have to
> type out the full name _once_ when you first define it...thereafter, you
> only need to type as many characters as it takes to distinguish it from
> anything else and the "auto complete" will recognise it and you hit the
> "auto complete" button (can"t be the usual TAB key in this case because
> we"ll want to use that for indenting source code but we can discuss the
> finer details of the "keyboard shortcuts" at the appropriate time
> :)...there"s also been an idea about a "right click menu" that could
> display members inside a structure or detail the parameters to an API
> procedure or whatever (again, rather easily done once you take this
> "incremental" approach...the symbol tables is "held open" in RAM whilst
> editing so if the programmer types in a structure"s name then it finds the
> structure in its tables and simply lists out the member names in the menu
> :)...

Why not adopt the Open Office approach? While it isn't that good when
writing documents and stuff, i would like such a feature in an assembly
language (heck, any language).

For those who don't know, Open Office autocompletes automatically,
except the autocompleted part is highlighted. That way, if you just keep
typing it is automatically erased. You hit enter when something is
highlighted and you just go to the end of the word.

Like, if you type His
Open office does:
His(tory)
where the parenthases are highlighted. Keep typing (spaces, tabs, etc),
it just disappears.

Get open office writer to see what i mean.

Percival

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