Word autocomplete

[ghost]

It's not working out of the box. It's a normal text file so it's not related to language servers. First I thought autocomplete is disabled so I had to use shortcut keys to manually trigger it. I pressed Ctrl+Space but nothing happened. Then I found on Edit menu the shortcut key for word autocomplete on TextAdept is Ctrl+Return. To my limited knowledge, I think Return is Enter. So I tried Ctrl+Enter, it also didn't work!

p/s: Could you tell me why you decided to use Ctrl+Return for word autocomplete on TextAdept instead of Ctrl+Space? It's always Ctrl+Space on other text editors, or Ctrl+Shift+Space. Btw, what does Ctrl+Space do on TextAdept?

[orbitalquark]

I opened a new buffer, typed "foo" followed by Enter (new line). Then I typed "f" followed by Ctrl+Enter. It completed "oo" so now I have two lines, both containing "foo". Does using the Edit > Complete Word menu item work? Maybe your key binding is not being recognized for some reason.

[ghost]

Is there a way to configure it to automatically trigger without the need of typing Ctrl+Enter like on Lite XL? Btw, could I configure it to use another shortcut key than Ctrl+Enter? Thank you.

[orbitalquark]

Yes, and yes. The manual has information on setting up key bindings. For the former, you can hook into the `events.CHAR_ADDED` event. I believe there was a previous discussion on this topic.

[ghost]

Believe me or not, I don't know how to write even a single line of Lua code. LPeg is simple enough for me could chimed in to make lexers. It's all that I can do. Even a basic functionality like this that should work out of the box needs you to implement it yourself. I'm really disappointed.

[orbitalquark]

Sorry to disappoint. I wrote Textadept for myself and decided to share it with you all. I don't need this feature, so I didn't implement it. I gave users that want it the option to implement it themselves. If this isn't your thing, then you may want to consider a more full-featured editor.

[ghost]

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