[oXygen-user] Feature Request for Content Completion with East Asian Text

[Christian Wittern]

Dear Sorin,

below is a message you wrote on 2008-06-06. I was hoping that this would
make it into the new version of Oxygen, but I just checked to see that
it seems to be not yet available. Could you give me an estimate to when
this will be available? This problem is a bit annoying to my users,
since in East Asian text, not even East Asian interpunction characters,
including the fullwidth space character (U+3000) allow the triggering of
code completion, so sometimes it is not clear to them, why it does not work.

All the best,

Christian

Sorin Ristache wrote:
> I am sorry, the code completion is not displayed regardless of the
> preceding characters. You need to have a space character and a prefix of
> the name of the code template already inserted in the document or at
> least a space character at the position of the cursor. We already have
> an issue logged in our system for displaying the code completion popup
> containing only code templates if there are no XML element names
> appropriate for the current context. We will implement it in a future
> version of Oxygen.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sorin
>
>
> Sorin Ristache wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do you mean you define a code template in Options -> Preferences ->
>> Editor -> Templates -> Code Templates which you want to insert in the
>> document using the code completion popup window? Just press Ctrl + Space
>> to kick off the code completion popup on demand regardless of the
>> character that precedes the insertion point.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sorin
>>
>>
>> Christian Wittern wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> We are using oXygen mainly to edit Chinese or Japanese text. In this case,
>>> words are not separated by whitespace.  For a project we are having here, I
>>> am setting up snippets that should be inserted using code completion.
>>> However, Code Completion fires only after a whitespace character, so we have
>>> to input a spurious whitespace character to kick this off, which then has to
>>> be deleted again at some point.  Hence my feature request:
>>> When doing a Code Completion, look at the character before the insertion
>>> point and fire if either there is a whitespace, or a character in the
>>> Unicode ranges for East Asian characters.  This should be fairly easy to
>>> implement and have no negative impact on the current functionality.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>       
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