Automatically show code completion widget

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From abhinav....@gmail.com on 2014-07-30T02:35:01Z

Spyder Version: 2.2.5
Python Version: 2.7.8
Qt Version : 4.8.6, PyQt4 (API v2) 4.11.1 on Linux
pyflakes >=0.5.0: 0.8.1 (OK)
pep8 >=0.6 : 1.5.7 (OK)
IPython >=0.13 : 2.1.0 (OK)
rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.2.2 (OK)
matplotlib >=1.0: 1.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.0 : 0.7.5 (OK)
pylint >=0.25 : 1.3.0 (OK)

Hello,
This is not a bug but a feature request. I would like to see some autocompletion features similar to that of Kate and KDevelop, where pressing a default number of characters triggers off options to complete the word automatically. This is useful in projects where there are a lot of variables, and where having long variable names makes the code easier to read.

Thanks,
Abhinav

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1914

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From ccordoba12 on 2014-08-17T10:12:39Z

You can use Ctrl+Space (or Tab in 2.3.0+) to trigger code completion on the Editor and the Consoles too.

However, we'll see if autocompletion is worth the effort or not for 2.4.

Labels: Cat-Editor MS-v2.4

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From ccordoba12 on 2015-02-08T09:47:45Z

Steven, what do you think about this one? Should we move to show the widget automatically?

This can be very annoying, but at the same it can be very helpful to beginners because they don't know about Tab or Ctrl+Space (and currently we don't provide any hints about it :-)

Summary: Automatically show code completion widget when typing at least 3 characters (was: Feature request: Enable autocompletion of variable names)
Cc: steven.s...@gmail.com

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From ccordoba12 on 2015-02-08T09:49:52Z

issue #1606 has been merged into this issue.

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From steven.s...@gmail.com on 2015-02-08T10:31:46Z

Our current preference option "Automatic Code Completion" is not very descriptive, in that it auto-completes after a ".".
We could create two options: "Auto complete on dot" and "Auto complete while typing" (or something along those lines). I do agree that it should only take place after 3 or more characters, so as not to bog down the background threading.

[goanpeca]

If we are doing this, would it make sense to also add fuzzy matching, perhaps as an option?

[blink1073]

That was the plan 😄

[ccordoba12]

@blink1073, is this planned for beta2 or beta3?

[blink1073]

Beta3.

[erwanp]

Hello! Is this feature still considered? It would be a nice addition

[ccordoba12]

Yep, for 3.2 :-)