[plugin dev question] Blocking the default Npp auto-completion programmatically

[greenzest]

Hello community,

I’m currently writing a plugin that implements its own auto-completion mechanic and window.

I would like to not prevent the default Npp auto-completion window from being displayed. Obviously, i can’t ask my user to deactivate the auto-completion via the options because i want him to be able to use the default autocomp for others files.

I could call SCI_AUTOCCANCEL
After each char input but that’s suboptimal… and the window is briefly displayed anyway…

At the moment i got 2 (ugly) solutions :

• Call SCI_AUTOCSTOPS with "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_
  -> this is effective, but for some reasons, it makes Npp slow down when editing a big file (> 40k lines)

• Start recording a macro programmatically, this effectively blocks the default autocomp. But for obvious reasons, this is not a good solution…

Can you think of anything else?

Otherwise, i will create an issue to ask for a new Notepad++ message that allows the deactivation of the auto-completion.

[dail]

There are user lists but I have no idea if that would be sufficient for what you need or it might interfere with the default auto-complete.

My other suggestion would be to try to find some other plugins that show their own auto-complete list and figure out how they do it. I can’t remember any off the top of my head but I know there are a few around that do it.

[greenzest]

I don’t see how the user lists can help me :)

I already searched for plugin that implement their own auto-completion, but unfortunatlely, none of them prevent the default autocomp from being displayed :

• http://csscriptnpp.codeplex.com/
• Ccompletion
• https://github.com/StanDog/npp-phpautocompletion

http://csscriptnpp.codeplex.com/ is the closest to what i’m developing, but you manually have to deactivate the default auto-completion.