[CLOSED] Tab no longer inserts code hints

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Issue by iwehrman
Tuesday Aug 27, 2013 at 18:43 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#4963

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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!?

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Comment by peterflynn
Tuesday Aug 27, 2013 at 19:38 GMT

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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).

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Comment by pthiess
Wednesday Aug 28, 2013 at 23:53 GMT

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

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Comment by iwehrman
Saturday Aug 31, 2013 at 17:14 GMT

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

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Comment by peterflynn
Thursday Sep 05, 2013 at 00:09 GMT

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...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)

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Sep 06, 2013 at 17:13 GMT

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@iwehrman Can I close this since your PR landed?

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Comment by iwehrman
Friday Sep 06, 2013 at 17:16 GMT

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I'll close it!

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Comment by njx
Wednesday Feb 05, 2014 at 20:20 GMT

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

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Comment by peterflynn
Thursday Feb 06, 2014 at 02:12 GMT

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

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Comment by njx
Thursday Feb 06, 2014 at 02:15 GMT

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

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Comment by Wikunia
Friday Nov 11, 2016 at 17:16 GMT

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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)