Descent, now with Open Type Hierarchy

[Ary Borenszweig]

Robert Fraser escribió:
> BCS wrote:
>> Major suggestion:
>>
>> The auto compleat drop down is very un-aggressive. I'd love to see it 
>> be Google style sort based rather than ordered-list/browse based.
> 
> JDT definitely has this and Descent has some.

Yes, but maybe in Descent it is not fine-tuned. So if you have a case 
where you'd like Descent to sort things in another way (not based on 
history), report an enchancement feature.

>> The kind of thing I'm thinking of is having a live sort of the options 
>> based on (among other things) what you have typed and the current 
>> context. For instance, pull things to the top of the list that are of 
>> the correct type for this context 
> 
> Already (sorta) does this.

Yes. See this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCcedd9EfHI

Starting from minute 1:30 it'll show you how the order of the options 
change depending on the expected type of the expression.

>> (or to a lesser extent, if they have members that are of the correct 
>> type), and do infix matches rather than just prefix matches. 
> 
> Infix matches would be cool, but... where should they be presented in 
> the list?
> 
> There is a feature in the Open Type dialog where you can type acronyms, 
> i.e. "DQL" and get "DatabaseQueryListener" as a suggestion. Not sure how 
> practical/useful this would be to implement in autocomplete.

Autocompletion already works like that (I just tested it, couldn't 
remember if it worked like that or not :-P). So for example if you have 
a function named "someLongMethod", when you type any sequence of 
prefixes of those words (some, long, method, with correct capitals), for 
example "sLM", "soLoMet" or "someLoM", etc., it'll show you 
"someLongMethod" to autocomplete.

>> Also nice would be history based sorting (the more often I use 
>> something, the higher up it is).
> 
> VS has this & it's a nice feature.

I agree, it's a really nice feature. But to make it work in Descent is 
harder because it's based in JDT, and JDT doesn't work like that. :(