[IPython-dev] Tab-completion in master

[Fernando Perez]

Hey,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Jörgen Stenarson
<jorgen.stenarson at bostream.nu> wrote:
> The main problem is that as it works now (at least for me) is that it
> actually deletes everything I have written if there are matches both in
> magics and regular. For example if I try to complete on 'color' when in
> pylab mode then I get a list of 5 matches 2 magics and 3 regular but I get
> to start all over again and type in color again:
>
> In [1]: color
> colorbar    colors      %colors     colormaps   %color_info
>
> In [1]:                         <--Empty line
>
> I find it quite annoying to have to retype things in cases like this.
>
> I think it would be nice to get alla matches including magics but not if the
> price is that I loose things I have typed.

Ah, I certainly don't see the deletion in Linux:

amirbar[~]> ip -pylab
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.11.alpha1.git -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment [backend: Qt4Agg].
For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.

In [1]: color <TAB>
colorbar     %color_info  colormaps    colors       %colors

In [1]: color

So in your case, the 'color' typed so far disappears?  That's
certainly pretty annoying...

I wonder why that is happening and why it's different on windows than
linux, that's quite odd.  No idea here so far, sorry.

I am working on some of the tab completion stuff now, but mostly for
the network, but I'll keep an eye out for anything that sticks out.
I'm working on the newkernel branch anyway, so nothing I've done
should have touched trunk on that front.

Mmh, sorry not to have a better idea right now.  But if this is
behaving like that on windows, we *definitely* need to fix it.

f