Auto-Complete Commit configuration

Hi Simon,

With completion sessions, you specify the TextRange to track and replace.  You also have full control over the pre-text and post-text that a completion item injects in place of that text range.  From what you wrote, it seems like the pre-text would be your full completion (with quotes if you want those inserted) and post-text would be null.  That would have the caret go after the completed text.

You would need to do some quick token scanning right before opening the session so you know the text range with which to initialize it.  You'd want to scan and make sure surrounding quotes, if there, are included. 

With those updates, it should probably be working how you want.

Hi,

Thanks for this response. Ok, some of that makes sense, so I'll travel down this angle. I'm not completely down with text ranges and scanning yet, but I'll give it a go. :)

Thanks,

Simon

Hi Simon,

Check out the "Scanning Text Using a Reader" topic in the documentation as that tells you how to get a reader.  A snapshot reader can iterate through text or tokens, so that's what you'd want to use.

Ok, a good hint. I'll take a look at that later today.

Thanks,

Simon

Hi,

I believe I now have this working.

I'm using the CompletionSession Committed event to get the item inserted and my tag information back, then using a reader to move a token or so left and then figuring out if the user has typed one of the prefix characters and depending on if there should be prefix/suffix or not, making selections and inserting/removing the prefix/suffix character as need.

I did try to setup the completion item's prefix as "si_temp", but unfortunately if the user typed "si_, then asked for the completion list and chose si_temp, they ended up with the following state ""si_temp<caret>". Letting the completion handle just the si_temp bit, my code results in "si_temp"<caret>, which is what I need.

Thanks for the guidance. :)

Simon