Tab no longer inserts code hints

[iwehrman]

Pull #4916 disabled use of the tab key for inserting the selected code hint, but I really like inserting code hints with the tab key! Dreamweaver, Sublime Text, WebStorm, Ace and the TypeScript web editor also allow hints to be inserted with tab key. (Eclipse, however, does not support inserting hints with the tab key.)

I say we bring back the tab key. Who's with me!?

[peterflynn]

Sure sounds like we need a preference for this! I still hate using Tab for code hints because it interferes with snippet expansion (in extensions like Emmet). (It's possible to have both features work at once, as evidenced by IDEs like Webstorm/IntelliJ, but we'd have to do a bunch of architectural changes first -- #4660 -- and in the meantime I still wouldn't be able to use Tab for snippets).

[pthiess]

@peterflynn - we are awaiting feedback for the recent changes so to me at this point its not a priority.

[iwehrman]

Another data point: the Chrome Dev Tools only use tab for committing hints, while enter dismisses the hint list.

[peterflynn]

...which is why I hate the code hints in Chrome Dev Tools :-)

(that and I can never quite get the behavior for multiple results / ambiguous prefix to feel predictable)

[peterflynn]

@iwehrman Can I close this since your PR landed?

[iwehrman]

I'll close it!

[njx]

Someone asked for this on Twitter. We should remember to make this a preference eventually...not sure the best way to track that.

[peterflynn]

@njx I've added a note in the Common settings as preferences user story.

[njx]

Oh cool, didn't know we had that story.

[Wikunia]

A user asked me to support this in my extension. Is there any way at the moment for an extension developer to call function x on enter and y on tab?
Would be great!
Wikunia/brackets-jQuinter#11 (comment)