Adapt inserted text from intelli prompt depending on surrounding text

Hi Tobias,

I'm not entirely clear on why using pre/post text was not a solution. Could you expand on why it didn't work for you?

The quotes should only be inserted if they are either part of the value or part of the pre/post text. Before opening your completion session, you could look at the tokens around the offset to determine if the quotation marks are already there. If they are, don't include them in the pre/post text. If they are not present, add them to pre/post text.

Well my initial thought was that pre text and post text are what is surrounding the inserted text, but that is not the case. Only pre and post text are inserted. The first in front of the caret, the other afterwards. In our case pre text is the combination of prefix, text and postfix while post text is empty. Other combinations don't work at all or have the same problem.

I improved the behavior by getting the current token and checking if the prefix and postfix are part of the token text. But this doesn't work in all situations and depends on where the caret is.

The Text property primarily controls the display text. If explicit values are not given for AutoCompletePreText or AutoCompletePostText, the same Text property is also used for the inserted text. If Pre/Post text are given, those values are solely used for the inserted text around the caret and the Text property only serves to control what is displayed in the completion list.  You've probably already seen this topic, but here's more information on text insertion for others who may stuble upon this thread:

https://www.actiprosoftware.com/docs/controls/wpf/syntaxeditor/user-interface/intelliprompt/completion-list#text-insertion

As you stated, the values for pre/post text would vary depending on the caret's position relative to any existing quotation marks.

Another option might be to avoid including the quotation marks in the completion list and handle the quotation marks after a selection is inserted. There are Committing and Committed events that can be used for more control over what gets inserted. More details on those are available here:

https://www.actiprosoftware.com/docs/controls/wpf/syntaxeditor/user-interface/intelliprompt/completion-list#commit-and-cancel

You could, for instance, listen to the Committing event to determing the selection, cancel the default operation, and then manually insert the corresponding text with surrounding quotation marks (as needed) around the text.