[texworks] Unwanted side-effect of <tab> : how to avoid ?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Jun 2011, at 08:53, Paul A Norman wrote:

> Might perhaps be helpful to have something on a <Tw Config>completion/
> .txt  file by file basis?
> 

I was originally thinking of doing this - that's one reason for supporting multiple files, rather than just dumping everything into a single text file - but didn't get around to it. At that point it would probably need to be a separate preference panel, though, to avoid over-filling the Editor panel. And maybe that's too much UI for one little feature.... hmmm. Not sure.

JK

> Paul
> 
> On 13 June 2011 19:49, Charlie Sharpsteen <chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
>> <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It seems like there should be a Preferences option for disabling
>>>> auto-completion.
>>> 
>>> Yes please.  Despite Alain's suggestion [1] that it would prove
>>> very interesting, I have managed without it for 64 years and it
>>> is now probably a bit late to come to terms with a need for it !
>>> 
>>> ** Phil.
>> 
>> I added a preference option that enables/disables tab completion. Patch is here:
>> 
>>    https://github.com/Sharpie/TeXworks/commit/0a09d61.patch
>> 
>> Seems to work on my machine. Definitely needs testing on Linux and Windows.
>> 
>> -Charlie
>> 
>> 
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