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Another new V3.0 feature - Edit keyword completion

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From: Michael Pizolato
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 17:25
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I just discovered, quite by accident, another really cool new feature of V3.0.   In Edit, if you type the beginning of a keyword then hit escape, Edit will complete the keyword for you, like filename completion in csh.  If there is only one keyword that begins with what you type, it is completed.  If there is more than one, it is completed and the portion that Edit filled in is highlighted.  You can hit the delete key (<--), press escape again, and the next match is completed.  You can cycle through all th



e keywords that begin with what you typed.

This works for instance variables, methods, categories, included class names, the keyword "return" and who knows what else.  I can't seem to find the limits nor define completely what set of keywords it will complete.  For example, my Edit completes "return" from "re", "ret", etc. but someone else's here doesn't complete "return" at all.  Completion also doesn't work at all on some machines.  Anybody know about this, or know where or if it's documented?  I've looked in Librarian (NextDev) and Edit's help w



ith no success.

Thanx,
Michael

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Subject: Another new V3.0 feature - Edit keyword completion
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