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Title: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: b on October 09, 2018, 04:56:05 PM

In an earlier bug reported, an argument to a function was expanded, but not left selected to allow typing in the desired value.   This was fixed in the specific case desired, but I've discovered a variant of the problem in beta6.

I have a function called ToBin() that takes a single argument n.

If I type ToBin(   it will close the paren and suggest n and properly leave it selected such that when I type it is replaced with the new argument as desired.

However, if I type To   and wait, it will suggest ToBin.   If I scroll down the selections and accept this, it will expand ToBin(n but then leave n as the argument, unselected such that I have to delete the argument before typing my own.

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: Dennis on October 09, 2018, 05:20:15 PM

I am having trouble reproducing this.  This could be a language specific problem.  What language did you see this in?  Could you provide a short code sample where I can reproduce this?  Does this happen in a default configuration also?

When you scroll down and accept "ToBin" as an argument, how are you doing that, there are numerous ways to accept a completion (TAB, ENTER, typing open paren, double-clicking on it with the mouse, ...).  Also, what sort of a completion is it at that time?  (Current Context, Symbol, Word completion)?  Is function-argument help active at the time?

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: Dennis on October 09, 2018, 05:30:34 PM

Never mind, Clark pointed out how he was able to reproduce it.

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: b on October 09, 2018, 05:34:55 PM

C++ (MSVC)
Ah, I see that if I <TAB> it works correctly, I had been pressing <ENTER> and reproducing this issue.   I wasn't using the mouse, but the cursor keys in the drop down.

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: b on October 09, 2018, 05:35:34 PM

ah, okay.

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: Dennis on October 09, 2018, 07:27:12 PM

Fixed for rc1.

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: arog on October 12, 2018, 12:18:16 AM

I have a similar issue, using arrow keys to highlight a function (under Symbols) and then hitting enter or tab to select it.  However, instead of not highlighting the argument correctly, the cursor jumps to the end of the buffer.  Will your fix probably take care of this issue also?

This snippet exhibits the behavior for me, if I attempt to finish the this.T line by selecting TestFunction from the Symbols list.

Code: [Select]

public class Test
{
public TestFunction(int y)
{
int z = 1;

// try to complete this expansion with TestFunction
this.T
}
}

C# macOS beta6

Thanks!

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: Dennis on October 12, 2018, 02:15:40 PM

@arog:  Could you send your user.cfg.xml

Title: Re: When selecting suggested function, its argument is expanded, not selected
Post by: arog on October 17, 2018, 12:22:33 AM

Following up to say that my case was also fixed in RC1.  I've been using it all day without any issues so far.  Thanks!