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    • Michael VincentM
      Michael Vincent @PeterJones
      last edited by

      @peterjones said in Autocomplete Items Order Issue:

      maybe suggest to Don that instead of ?1000, just use a low-ASCII control character (0x01-0x1F

      the ? is the default in Scintilla so that’s what I used. I didn’t bother trying a low control character for sort order since ? is a non-word character - who would’ve thought it could even be used in the Notepad++ autocomplete/ directory files?

      Hmm… I guess OP?

      You present a good idea. I can try some testing. If it works, it’s a simple enough change.

      Cheers.

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      • Lycan ThropeL
        Lycan Thrope @Michael Vincent
        last edited by

        @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 KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Lycan Thrope
          last edited by

          @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 BogomolovV
            Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
            last edited by

            @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 VincentM
              Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
              last edited by

              @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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              • PeterJonesP
                PeterJones @Michael Vincent
                last edited by

                @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 VincentM
                  Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
                  last edited by

                  @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 BogomolovV
                    Valery Bogomolov @PeterJones
                    last edited by

                    @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 VincentM
                      Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                      last edited by

                      @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 KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @Valery Bogomolov
                        last edited by

                        @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 BogomolovV
                          Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                          last edited by

                          @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 VincentM
                            Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                            last edited by

                            @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 BogomolovV
                              Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
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                              • Valery BogomolovV
                                Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
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                                @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 VincentM
                                  Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                                  last edited by

                                  @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 ThropeL
                                    Lycan Thrope
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                                    • Lycan ThropeL
                                      Lycan Thrope
                                      last edited by Lycan Thrope

                                      @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 BogomolovV
                                        Valery Bogomolov @Michael Vincent
                                        last edited by

                                        @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 VincentM
                                          Michael Vincent @Valery Bogomolov
                                          last edited by

                                          @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 KilbornA
                                            Alan Kilborn @Michael Vincent
                                            last edited by

                                            @michael-vincent

                                            My function list icon looks like this, not yours:

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

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