From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-10-30T13:13:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Auto-completion editor/IDE

In article <525df23a04102819497e4d53ff@mail.gmail.com>, Rob . wrote:
>I wrote a jEdit macro and ruby script that performs na�ve code
>completion using ri. Currently it runs incredibly slow, but as a proof
>of concept it was a success.
>
>My na�ve approach is to assume that if it quacks like a duck, it
>probably waddles like a duck too. Unfortunately if we haven't heard
>any quacks yet, then it's difficult to assume waddling or anything
>else.
>
>The jEdit beanshell macro executes a Ruby script that does the following:
> 1) determines methods that have already been called on the variable 
> 2) uses a slightly modified version of ri to find classes that have
>all those methods
> 3) uses ri again to find all the methods available on those classes
>
>The jEdit macro then displays a popup list of the methods for the user
>to select from. In the case of a variable being declared like this:
>    variable = Duck.new
>we know we have a duck so the script can immediately jump to step 3.
[...]

Nice! This is a clever idea. How well does it work?