Hello!

Is it possible auto-complete the word like test:nValue?

If I write tes, auto-complete proposes test.

When I write test:nV, auto-complete proposes test and not test:nValue.

Regards Maurizio

Thanks Mofi

I use Windows XP Prof, UEStudio 06.40a setting for Harbour (ex clipper).

I modify the delimiter in wordfile.txt and erase the character : but that doesn't work.

Regards Maurizio

Hi all,

I'm working with an old fashioned, not so much structured programming language. There are a lot of normal function names and variables with dots in it, like "my.first.variable". This is no structure, just a variable.

If the following option is not set: "Do not auto-complete structure members (items following "." or "->")"

I thought that something like the variable above would be completed in one go. But UE stops at every dot. Is there a way to autocomplete words regardless off any dots?
--> I'm not talking about keywords, I have this problem with buffered text. Maybe in keywords dots are no problem!

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Richard

I have already looked once if it possible to specify which characters are interpreted as delimiters for the auto-completion - see the posts above. And nothing has been changed since I have posted this. I think the help for this setting is not detailed enough to really understand the purpose of this setting.

I can't see any difference caused by this setting on auto-completion by Ctrl+Space for my 'C' files. Maybe this is because I have the . NOT in the list of delimiter characters in the wordfile at the language definition for 'C' files.

I think there is no possibility to get something like "my.first.variable" displayed at once in the auto-completion dialog after entering "my." and press Ctrl+Space which I honestly also miss in some cases.

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Update on 2012-07-12: To get into auto-completion list also strings containing a . it is important that the . is not specified as word delimiting character in the wordfile used for syntax highlighting the active file. To verify this open a file where . should be not interpreted as word delimiter and which is syntax highlighted. Open now Advanced - Configuration - Editor Display - Syntax Highlighting. The language used to syntax highlight active file is already preselected. Open the appropriate wordfile by clicking on button Open right to language drop down list. Close the configuration dialog with button Cancel. Now look on the line starting with /Delimiters = in the opened wordfile below the line containing the language name. This line should not contain character .

Further the name of the setting Do not auto-complete structure members (items following "." or "->") was wrong a very long time in many versions of UltraEdit and UEStudio. The correct name for this option is:

Do not auto-correct structure members (items following "." or "->")

It is an option of the auto-correction feature and not of the auto-completion feature. This mistake in name was finally corrected in UEStudio v12.10.0.1003 and in UltraEdit > v18.10.0.1016.

Hi Mofi,

so I think I have to live with this. It's only that I find auto-complete a little bit unhandy, compared with other popular editors. I.e. if you press "CTRL-SPACE" and AC finds nothing the frame opens and you have to close with ESC to get rid of it. But this is the only point with that software which is annoying sometimes.

Regards to Austria
Richard

I've set up an autocomplete file containing the names of all variables used in our application. Some of the variable names are similar and long so the idea is to reduce keystrokes and improve accuracy. The file contains upwards of 14,000 entries.

In the UltraEdit configuration settings I've got 'Show auto-complete dialog automatically' enabled after 3 characters are typed.

So, to give a rather simplified example, say I'm writing some code to access the invoice file INV.

Conveniently the variable names are always prefixed by the file identifier, so the INV file contains these variables -
INV-NUMBER
INV-CUST-TITLE
INV-CUST-FORENAME
INV-CUST-SURNAME
INV-DELIV-ADDRESS-LINE-1
INV-DELIV-ADDRESS-LINE-2
INV-GROSS-AMOUNT
etc

Typing INV brings up, as expected, a dialog box (with a scroll bar, because of the number of variables) containing -
INV-CUST-FORENAME
INV-CUST-SURNAME
INV-CUST-TITLE
INV-DELIV-ADDRESS-LINE-1
INV-DELIV-ADDRESS-LINE-2
INV-GROSS-AMOUNT
INV-NUMBER
etc

I can of course use the scroll bar to navigate to the required field and press tab to copy the value into the editor.

But I want to be able to continue typing, for example -CUST, and have the list automatically reduce to -
INV-CUST-FORENAME
INV-CUST-SURNAME
INV-CUST-TITLE
etc

But as soon as the hyphen (-) is typed the dialog closes.

As an experiment I edited the autocomplete file, changing all the hyphens to underscores.
Then, typing INV_CUST_ brings up
INV_CUST_FORENAME
INV_CUST_SURNAME
INV-CUST_TITLE
etc

which is exactly what I expect. But with hyphens - not underscores.

I've got this working in other editors but with UltraEdit the hyphen as delimiter seems to be set in stone.

Any ideas?

Hi Mofi

Thanks for the quick reply.

The problem was in the syntax highlighting file (which you mention) so by disabling hyphen as a delimiter it now works.

A couple of other observations -

1) Autocomplete also checks keywords that are defined in the syntax highlighting file. To explain...in addition to the variable names I've now added language keywords to the autocomplete file. So these of course overlap with the keywords that I want highlighted. In my case I'm using Cobol (yeah yeah I know ) so for example I've got 'PERFORM' in the autocomplete file and 'perform' (lower-case) in the highlighting file. Typing perf now brings up in the dialog box -

PERFORM
perform

PERFORM comes from autocomplete - I know this because it has a single space at the end (as defined in the file, to save keystrokes)
perform must come from highlighting - there is no space at the end

Accident or by design?

There may be way around this but I can live with it.

2) Its probably obvious but if either of these files are changed then UltraEdit needs to be closed and reopened.

Yes that explains it very well.

I always seem to need to reload UltraEdit to make configuration changes effective - and I am making those changes using UltraEdit itself, not via an external editor like NotePad.

But I suspect that I'm on an old version

Anyway thanks for your time