From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>
To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Seeking feedback on a project
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:06:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030711170632.GD4031@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4DBD8568F05D511A1C20002A55C008C11AC05A4@uswaumsx03medge.med.ge.com> <001401c34788$19f1b0a0$9600a8c0@maison>
Uh-oh! Scope creep! Glad I'm not obligated to do this :-)
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:40:36AM +0200, Benoît de boursetty wrote:
> One thing you should not forget if you start with this is support for
> autocompletion on tab... which is a primordial feature of today's CLIs.
Ouch. That had occurred to me too, but I wouldn't know how to do it. As
far as I know, OCaml has no built-in mechanism for processing raw
keystrokes.
> One of the things I would be tremendously looking forward to having is
> "typed autocompletion".
Yes, that would be nice. I think the hard part is implementing
tab-completion in the first place. If I can do that, it shouldn't be
much extra work to make it type- (or context-) sensitive.
> One random thought, please make it easy to use with Ocaml yacc/lex
> and or Camlp4. -D
That sounds like a good idea, but could you be more specific about what
you mean?
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