From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-10-27T17:39:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-completion editor/IDE

In article <7D594374-27CF-11D9-8F01-000A95DBF456@fhwang.net>, Francis Hwang
wrote:
>Patrick put it pretty well when we were hanging out talkin' Ruby night: 
>He said "The same features that make Ruby fun for humans to write makes 
>it hard for computers to read." All the extra typing you do for, say, 
>Java, makes it a lot easier to write things like auto-completion, 
>refactoring tools, etc.

Very true.

>At any rate, one thing I'd look at is 'irb/completion', which does 
>auto-completion in irb. I haven't looked at the internals, but I use it 
>all the time and it would be probably be a good place to start.

irb/completion basically just uses `foo.methods'. irb is doing completion at
runtime. In an editor you really want compile-time completion.