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

[Paul A Norman]

On 13 June 2011 20:12, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 13 Jun 2011, at 08:53, Paul A Norman wrote:
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>> Might perhaps be helpful to have something on a <Tw Config>completion/
>> .txt  file by file basis?
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> 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.

What about a set height slideshowable QListView  populated at startup
with QCheckBox(es)  from the <Tw config>/completion/*.txt  files'
list?

Paul
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> JK
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>> Paul
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>> 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:
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>>>> Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
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>>>>> It seems like there should be a Preferences option for disabling
>>>>> auto-completion.
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>>>> 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 !
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>>>> ** Phil.
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>>> I added a preference option that enables/disables tab completion. Patch is here:
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>>>    https://github.com/Sharpie/TeXworks/commit/0a09d61.patch
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>>> Seems to work on my machine. Definitely needs testing on Linux and Windows.
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>>> -Charlie
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