Thread: 'use tab key for autocomplete' still documented even though it's been removed

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Arthur Prokosch <prokosch@umich.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Coming from a unix background, I'd really like to be able to use the <tab>
> key within the Query Tool's editor box to bring up autocompletions. It's
> documented even though the feature seems to be long-dead. Can this be fixed?

Not easily, unfortunately.

> According to the documentation I find at
>  http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/query.html
> that should be possible: "You can optionally enable the Tab key to activate
> the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the options dialog."
> But there's nothing apropos in the options dialog, nor any relevant registry
> keys or values matching "tab."
>
> So, I dig into git - pgadmin3.git via the web interface. ctlSQLBox.cpp:162
> only sets up Ctrl-Space as an accelerator. But -- commit
> 525c9fc7825f3d3f1b0b02c4444b2f9bdbc34178 from 2009 nuked the feature as well
> as the configuration for it. Updated the docs for the configuration screen
> itself but not the general query box docs.
>
> I'd love it if tab-completion could be restored, but the commit I referenced
> makes that sound hard. So failing that, can the documentation be well and
> truly expunged?

I've pushed a fix for it. Thanks for the heads up!

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On 17/06/2014 21:16, Arthur Prokosch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Coming from a unix background, I'd really like to be able to use the
> <tab> key within the Query Tool's editor box to bring up
> autocompletions. It's documented even though the feature seems to be
> long-dead. Can this be fixed?
> 
> According to the documentation I find at 
>  http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/query.html
> that should be possible: "You can optionally enable the Tab key to
> activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the
> options dialog." But there's nothing apropos in the options dialog, nor
> any relevant registry keys or values matching "tab."

Hi there,

That's a really old set of documentation - the current version is 1.18,
and here's the corresponding page in the up-to-date docs -
 http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/query.html

- where you'll see that ctrl-space is now used for autocompletion. :-)

Ray.



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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
> On 17/06/2014 21:16, Arthur Prokosch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Coming from a unix background, I'd really like to be able to use the
>> <tab> key within the Query Tool's editor box to bring up
>> autocompletions. It's documented even though the feature seems to be
>> long-dead. Can this be fixed?
>>
>> According to the documentation I find at
>>  http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/query.html
>> that should be possible: "You can optionally enable the Tab key to
>> activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the
>> options dialog." But there's nothing apropos in the options dialog, nor
>> any relevant registry keys or values matching "tab."
>
> Hi there,
>
> That's a really old set of documentation - the current version is 1.18,
> and here's the corresponding page in the up-to-date docs -
>
>   http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/query.html
>
> - where you'll see that ctrl-space is now used for autocompletion. :-)

Yeah, but it also says "You can optionally enable the Tab key to
activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the
options dialog.". I've removed that now for 1.20.

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Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com
Twitter: @pgsnake

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