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    Lycan Thrope @Michael Vincent
    last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 7:16 PM

    @michael-vincent ,

    I installed portable 8.3.1 to test whether what I know changed or not, and after copying my own UDL, FunctionList, Autocomplete and overridemap files over to the portable it works as it should.

    Granted, by the way, who decided to include that fx glyph in the Autocomplete keywords and function list? As screenshot shows for me, the only thing different is that glyph, the list still sorts lexocographically.

    NPP8_3_1portableAutoComplete.PNG

    That glyph is now a distraction. :)

    Lee

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      Alan Kilborn @Lycan Thrope
      last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 7:20 PM

      @lycan-thrope said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

      who decided to include that fx glyph

      That would be @michael-vincent
      Or rather, ultimately, @don-ho

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        Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
        last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 7:35 PM

        @michael-vincent If Notepad++ could autocomplete snippets - would be very handy to write faster things.

        For example, this item

        <KeyWord name="error_reporting(0);&#x0D;&#x0A;ini_set('display_errors',0);&#x0D;&#x0A;ini_set('display_startup_errors',0);&#x0D;&#x0A;"/>

        inserts each function on the new line.

        Before:
        Npp_Autocomplete_Snippet.png

        After:
        Npp_Autocomplete_Snippet_Result.png

        I used hexadecimal XML entities in the php.xml autocomplete file, except spaces &#x20; that broke the autocomplete box behaviour:

        Hexadecimal Decimal Unicode Name
        &#x09; or &#09; CHARACTER TABULATION
        &#x0A; or &#10; LINE FEED (LF)
        &#x0D; or &#13; CARRIAGE RETURN (CR)
        &#x20; or &#32; SPACE

        It’s useful for me. It could be great if somebody could remain the same functionality.

        My current Notepad++ v8.3.1 autocompletion behaves the same as in the previous version, except for the order of items in the autocomplete results box.

        Cheers.

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          Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
          last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 7:39 PM

          @valery-bogomolov

          Yes, what you are describing is the EXACT use case for the code snippets plugins I mentioned and NOT the intended use of the Notepad++/autoComplete/ files.

          But alas, @PeterJones had a good suggestion and ASCII record separator 30 (\x1E) seems to be a good alternative that is “lower” in sort order than all visible ASCII characters so should fix the sorting problem if I can get an issue and pull request accepted.

          Cheers.

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            PeterJones @Michael Vincent
            last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 8:37 PM

            @michael-vincent said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

            alas …

            It’s not just for the snippet-abuse of auto-complete.

            if I can get an issue and pull request accepted.

            If you need additional justification: Perfectly valid autocomplete word characters (0-9) are sorted incorrectly because of the use of ? as the image separator character:

            The following three keywords are sorted in lexicographical sort order. They only have valid word characters (\w) in their keyword. But they still sort incorrectly in the function list:

            print_r
            print_r0
            print_rand
            

            The shorter print_r should always come before anything longer that starts with the same sequence.

            But because asc(0)=48=0x30 is less than asc(?)=63=0x3F, the auto-complete will list print_r0 before print_r. This is a bug in the current implementation.

            744c0861-2f0b-4be1-b58a-714c7e28f382-image.png

            <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
            <!--
            @author	 Geoffray Warnants - http://www.geoffray.be
            @version	1.35.20100625
            -->
            <NotepadPlus>
            	<AutoComplete>
            		<KeyWord name="print_r" func="yes">
            			<Overload retVal="mixed">
            				<Param name="mixed expression"/>
            				<Param name="[bool return=false]"/>
            			</Overload>
            		</KeyWord>
            		<KeyWord name="print_r0" func="yes">
            			<Overload retVal="mixed">
            				<Param name="argument"/>
            			</Overload>
            		</KeyWord>
            		<KeyWord name="print_rand" func="yes"/>
            	</AutoComplete>
            </NotepadPlus>
            

            Feel free to use this image and minimized auto-completion file in your issue report as justification.

            Notepad++ v8.3.1 (64-bit)
            Build time : Feb 13 2022 - 15:41:12
            Path : C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.3.1.portable.x64\notepad++.exe
            Command Line :
            Admin mode : OFF
            Local Conf mode : ON
            Cloud Config : OFF
            OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
            OS Version : 2009
            OS Build : 19042.1526
            Current ANSI codepage : 1252
            Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

            But I definitely agree, @Valery-Bogomolov should learn how to use one of the code-snippet tools (I would personally recommend Michael’s fork of the QuickText plugin, as I found that the most intuitive of the snippet-plugins for my use-case), rather than continuing to abuse the auto-complete files for things it wasn’t intended to do.

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              Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
              last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 8:40 PM

              @michael-vincent said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

              get an issue and pull request accepted

              Done and Done. Well, submitted at least, the accepted part will need to wait a bit.

              Cheers.

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                Valery Bogomolov @PeterJones
                last edited by Feb 17, 2022, 9:29 PM

                @peterjones I’m sorry for the “snippet-abuse”, I just wanted to get the most from the Npp’s auto-complete interface. I experimented with autocomplete a lot before developing the parser that generates KeyWords for my favorite language PHP. I wrote about it here

                Unexpectedly, I figured out that I was able, for example, to write faster SQL queries code rather than using any other editor for that.

                FingerText is not compatible with my configured Notepad++, QuickText is not convenient for me to use, but I use it. NppSnippets is a great plugin, but I have to search for a specific item in a dialog to insert a snippet and it takes some time.

                Regards.

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                  Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                  last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 12:51 PM

                  @valery-bogomolov

                  You can try the pull request AppVeyor build by downloading, and replacing your current notepad++.exe with the appropriate downloaded, renamed version. Of course, save your current notepad++.exe (notepad++.exe.orig) so you can revert back when done testing.

                  Cheers.

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                    Alan Kilborn @Valery Bogomolov
                    last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 1:01 PM

                    @valery-bogomolov

                    @michael-vincent said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                    You can try the…

                    More details (if you need them) on exactly how you’d do that are HERE .

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                      Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                      last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 3:31 PM

                      @michael-vincent Thank you for the great work, but personally, I don’t like the new UX of the autocomplete: the fx icon is really distracting and I have to look down a couple of lines to see the first result. I would prefer to have the old autocomplete if it could be possible, sorry

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                        Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                        last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 3:37 PM

                        @valery-bogomolov said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                        Thank you for the great work

                        Assuming that means is sorts as you expect now?

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                          Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                          last edited by Valery Bogomolov Feb 18, 2022, 4:11 PM Feb 18, 2022, 4:09 PM

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                            Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                            last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 4:20 PM

                            @michael-vincent Ok, now it works. I compared it with the old autocomplete version and the results seem to be the same.

                            Only fx icon is everywhere. There is a func="yes", or func="no" attribute in XML that describes the KeyWord, and the func attribute is not always required. There could be some language expression like return, but it’s not fx, right?

                            Best regards.

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                              Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                              last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 5:07 PM

                              @valery-bogomolov

                              The “fx” distinguishes the option comes from an autocomplete/*.xml file versus a word from the current file when both word and API autocomplete is active.

                              Scintilla autocomplete has a lot to be desired and Notepad++ does the best it can with it, but plugins can use autocomplete too (e.g., QuickText, TagLEET, I have PythonScripts that do it to provide Python-IDE-like features with jedi). Only you can’t merge the lists - only 1 autocomplete is active at any time. So which suggestion is coming from what source?

                              TagLEET global tags file:
                              df1fbbe0-ccc1-46d5-80f8-57cf3b120ab5-image.png

                              TagLEET local tags file:
                              710d17f3-bc6d-477e-b6af-cea349052caf-image.png

                              QuickText:
                              e6a76f98-3b3f-4ec2-8564-154fc336970a-image.png

                              PythonScript custom Python IDE:
                              99fc1b29-3886-432a-8c57-769cf47e4421-image.png

                              523668f6-5208-4226-93f7-d0053f27df19-image.png

                              It’d be nice to see them all in the same list, but alas, each time a character is typed and a best match is found, whatever Notepad++ / Plugin matches best displays it’s abbreviated list. The Icons help determine where in the heck this suggestion is coming from.

                              This is no different than most other editors that offer autocomplete (VS Code example )
                              7a6eba30-6a8b-40f1-aacf-e7acb2193295-image.png

                              Cheers.

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                                Lycan Thrope
                                last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 5:24 PM

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                                  Lycan Thrope
                                  last edited by Lycan Thrope Feb 18, 2022, 5:26 PM Feb 18, 2022, 5:24 PM

                                  @michael-vincent ,

                                  Okay, to differentiate which is document words and which are autocomplete words seems to make sense, unless you factor in that if you don’t want the words from the document being introduced and only use it for the autocomplete list, the fx is actually redundant to that purpose. Now, if you want to show an icon for words from the document, that triggers if you switch that option on, that makes more sense. Since if the word is from an autocomplete it won’t matter, it’s a different procedure for you to autocomplete a function, and the keyword is just that, so you select it whether it has been in the document previously or not, but if it’s only from the document, that would make more sense to highlight that with a different character glyph. Just my two cents worth. :)

                                  Wow, forum is slow and double posting posts. :(

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                                    Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                                    last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 5:54 PM

                                    @michael-vincent fx means function of x in math… I would use something from what Notepad++ already has in its UI. For example, the cube icon from the Function List panel with light grey color, so not to distract the user and black color for the font in results, as it has right now :)

                                    The example icon from the Function List panel
                                    Npp_Autocomplete_Icon.png

                                    and I would prefer to use unicode character instead of png, so it could be scalable and faster to load :)

                                    P.s.: btw, I have also issue with NppGTags autocomplete as it shows me gibberish in results. It’s my favorite plugin :( Maybe, the engoding of generated tags file is wrong… no ideas how to fix
                                    Npp_Autocomplete_ NppGTags.png

                                    Cheers.

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                                      Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                                      last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 6:01 PM

                                      @valery-bogomolov said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                                      I would use something from what Notepad++ already has in its UI

                                      I did:

                                      7e6761fe-97c5-46df-9c80-37c7ee263868-image.png

                                      @valery-bogomolov said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                                      and I would prefer to use unicode character instead of png, so it could be scalable and faster to load :)

                                      No characters, it’s not a PNG. Scintilla has only 2 options .

                                      @valery-bogomolov said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                                      P.s.: btw, I have also issue with NppGTags autocomplete as it shows me gibberish in results

                                      I would contact the author @pnedev and open an issue . He’s been very responsive fixing the Compare Plugin .

                                      Cheers.

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                                        Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                                        last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 6:05 PM

                                        @michael-vincent

                                        My function list icon looks like this, not yours:

                                        02fe184f-c743-403f-96ea-c8780215cfd4-image.png

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                                          Michael Vincent @Alan Kilborn
                                          last edited by Feb 18, 2022, 6:08 PM

                                          @alan-kilborn said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

                                          My function list icon looks like this, not yours:

                                          33a111fe-c2a6-46cd-b942-cf6cc12891c9-image.png

                                          You’ll need to restart Notepad++.

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