Try Cmd-q or Ctrl-q ( and right alt click on Windows).

Spotter also has suffixes like #im #cl #sen to be put after a few
keystrokes.

Spotter: shift-enter (who knows).

Phil

On Sat, May 26, 2018, 22:16 Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

> That’s exactly the exploratory attitude we like to see...
>
> I think the code completer is pluggable and can be selected in the
> settings (I think there are 2, and their history is probably in this list
> somewhere), so  you can try your own too.
>
> Tim
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On 26 May 2018, at 16:10, Andrzej Olszak <andrzej.ols...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Tim and Nicole,
>
> Thanks for great tips. The click+keyModifier actions are extremely useful,
> and combined with breakpoints make for a great way of 'peeking under the
> hood' of the existing features.
>
> Also, I've just found a perfect piece of real code to do some learning and
> experimenting on - it will be the code completion itself! ;-)
>
> Andrzej
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:47 AM, Nicole de Graaf <n...@soops.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrzej,
>>
>> my way of doing it:
>>
>> Searching in the image what other guys are doing.
>>
>> Finder: asMorph
>>
>> and here you can find methods like
>>
>> #openAsMorph .. you can get a clue.
>>
>> or:
>>
>> ‘some text’ asMorph inspect ..
>> than you get the object and you can search the class and from here the
>> class the references.
>>
>> *All my steps are based on code reading not code completion.*
>>
>> Code completion I use more if I know what is should be and use the same
>> method names as the other developers.
>>
>> Nic
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2018, at 03:12, andreo <andrzej.ols...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Pharoers,
>>
>> I'm just starting out with Pharo 6.1, and I'm trying to use code
>> completion
>> to interactively explore various objects and their messages. However, I'm
>> having difficulties doing this efficiently - I think I must be missing
>> something obvious, and I hope you can point me in the right direction.
>>
>> For instance, let's say I have the below in Playground:
>>
>> 'some text' asMorph
>>
>> and I would like to display the morph object as a window, but I don't know
>> the exact message name, or whether such a message exists at all. If I type
>> "Window", then the completion popup will show a long list of matching
>> messages, but won't show their documentation or argument names, so it will
>> be difficult to know exactly what these messages do.
>> I can see that one can do "Do it and go" on an expression and then browse
>> the available messages in Meta, but maybe there is simpler/faster way?
>>
>> How would an experienced Pharo user typically go about discovering the
>> right
>> messages in such situations?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andrzej
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html
>>
>>
>>
>

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