On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Simon King wrote: > >> An alternative idea: >> FOO.X<TAB> --> all attributes starting with X >> FOO.X<TAB><TAB> (press TAB twice) --> all attributes containing X >> >> Perhaps this is easier to implement. > > I actually like this perhaps a bit better, easier to type and to > remember. It is also more likely to be "discovered."
iPython, by default, lists all possible completions when the TAB key (or Ctrl-l) is pressed. But this behaviour can be changed (via the user's personal ipythonrc file) to: TAB completes, but does not show completions; TAB-TAB shows completions. I guess I wanted to point out that: (1) With a special, non-default setting in iPython, TAB-TAB has some significance. (2) The fact that iPython already has a mechanism to detect and handle two TAB keypresses should make implementation easier. If we decided to implement Simon's suggestion (which I like), we should keep the first issue in mind. Perhaps that behaviour can be relegated to TAB-TAB-TAB? (If the option is set, then: TAB completes, but does not show completions; TAB-TAB shows completions; TAB-TAB-TAB shows all completions containing ....) Take care, Franco -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
