From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-03-30T14:59:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Open letter to anyone developing a Ruby IDE

On 29 Mar 2005, at 21:00, Eric Hodel wrote:

> It would be far easier to just run etags over all the files you  
> require and use those for auto-completion purposes.
>
> vim has a workable solution for this (and I'm told emacs' solution is  
> nearly, if not actually, identical), it simply auto-completes words  
> that have the same beginning above your current location in the text  
> before switching to words from other buffers.  (So if I typed  
> b-<TAB>-<TAB>-<TAB> here, I would get 'buffers' then 'before' then  
> 'beginning' as possible completions.)
>
> Extending this by reading files on require lines into etags would be  
> pretty easy, and you could use some weighted sorting to keep commonly  
> completed words only a few presses of tab away.
>
> While this won't get an accurate completion every time, you really  
> don't care.  You'll find that 90% of the time the word you want is  
> less than 3 presses of tab away.

Also, this[1] or something similar could probably get you those hints  
you need, and again be accurate 90% of the time.

http://www.chadfowler.com/index.cgi/Computing/Programming/Ruby/ 
TypeWatching.rdoc,v

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