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peterz
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 Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: Tab-completion in 2.0.10 |
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2.0.10 has completely re-written tab-completion code.
To preempt the endless questions about it, here's a quick guide to customizing its behaviour:
Bash style: /set completion_amount 0
Never print anything out style: /set completion_amount 999
Got any other questions about it? Ask pomac on this forum or on #xchat on freenode. |
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NoBody
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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exactly what should i understand under "tab completion"? 
Is it the way tabs fill the channel bar?
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LIM
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject: Tab Nick Completion |
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it means:
Tab Nick Completion
press Tab key to complete a nickname match.
I suppose the number is some amount of allowed fuzz factor in matching nicks... |
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Khisanth
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:56 am Post subject: |
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the number is the amount of characters to match/complete before giving
you a list of possible completions(like the tab comletion before 2.0.10). |
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NoBody
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:54 am Post subject: Re: Tab Nick Completion |
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| LIM wrote: | it means:
Tab Nick Completion
press Tab key to complete a nickname match.
I suppose the number is some amount of allowed fuzz factor in matching nicks... |
lol that's another tab then i was thinking 
Well i'm a big fan of nick completion (use it a lot) so i'll try it out as soon as 2.0.10 is in the portage tree (Gentoo)
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Q-collective
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Tab Nick Completion |
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| NoBody wrote: | | LIM wrote: | it means:
Tab Nick Completion
press Tab key to complete a nickname match.
I suppose the number is some amount of allowed fuzz factor in matching nicks... |
lol that's another tab then i was thinking
Well i'm a big fan of nick completion (use it a lot) so i'll try it out as soon as 2.0.10 is in the portage tree (Gentoo) |
It's in portage |
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NoBody
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 1:33 am Post subject: Re: Tab Nick Completion |
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| Q-collective wrote: | | NoBody wrote: | | LIM wrote: | it means:
Tab Nick Completion
press Tab key to complete a nickname match.
I suppose the number is some amount of allowed fuzz factor in matching nicks... |
lol that's another tab then i was thinking
Well i'm a big fan of nick completion (use it a lot) so i'll try it out as soon as 2.0.10 is in the portage tree (Gentoo) |
It's in portage |
yeps i know... discovered it few minutes after i posted my previous message, i was too lazy to get back here and edit the reply
Well, it seems nick completion is more mIRC-style now (depending on how completion_amount is set), which has it's advantages as well as it's disadvantages
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Stuart_Gilbert
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:42 am Post subject: Tab completion of plugin commands |
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I was reading the changelog when I noticed
| Quote: | | Plugin commands can now be tab-completed too (Frank Thieme). |
I tested it out with a command that I have to display the currently playing iTunes track "/itunes".
i<tab> gives me "/IGNORE" and no amount of other tab presses will move it onto "/itunes" unlike nicks when there are more than one beginning with the same letter.
it<tab> does auto-complete to "/itunes" though, so the plugin is still working etc.
EDIT
Also, when a nick is not the first thing on the line it auto-completes once, but won't change the nick if there is more than one matching what I typed.
p<tab> will go to "Percy" but hitting tab again won't move it to "PunkRawkKid182134553542245@yahoo.com" or whatever. |
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pizbit
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:50 am Post subject: |
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I would like to be able to continue tabbing through even if there is no match because, well, typos suck.
Eg say I'm in a channel and the only person begining with piz (me being 'pizbit' of course:D )
pix<tab>
Gives nothing, I'd like to to change to Pizbit and have the ability to continue tabbing.
Also great if it didn't stop tabbing at all because of the same reason, if I typo and hit tab I'm stuck with the wrong nick and I have to backspace do undo all the extra letters.
Yes I realise I wouldn't often be using tab completion on my own nick but it's just an example. *g* |
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Khisanth
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| pizbit wrote: | I would like to be able to continue tabbing through even if there is no match because, well, typos suck.
Eg say I'm in a channel and the only person begining with piz (me being 'pizbit' of course:D )
pix<tab>
Gives nothing, I'd like to to change to Pizbit and have the ability to continue tabbing.
Also great if it didn't stop tabbing at all because of the same reason, if I typo and hit tab I'm stuck with the wrong nick and I have to backspace do undo all the extra letters.
Yes I realise I wouldn't often be using tab completion on my own nick but it's just an example. *g* |
The problem with continuing is that if you are in evern an average size
channel there will be a lot of people to cycle through. |
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pizbit
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hrm, one letter of error? Eg, it'd go through the normal process and if they kept holding down tab it'd remove the last letter(of what you hit tab on) and continue as if that was what you had typed to start off with.
Or simply one part of the cycle wouldn't be anything added onto what you typed. |
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Khanboy
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Well pizbit, looks like it's time to grab the source and start making those diffs. =P |
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pj-
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| Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: Tab completion of plugin commands |
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| Stuart_Gilbert wrote: |
EDIT
Also, when a nick is not the first thing on the line it auto-completes once, but won't change the nick if there is more than one matching what I typed.
p<tab> will go to "Percy" but hitting tab again won't move it to "PunkRawkKid182134553542245@yahoo.com" or whatever. |
That happens to me too, except if I don't have a nick completion suffix, p<tab> at the beginning of a line would go to "Percy", but pressing tab again would do nothing.
I fired up 1.8.11 to see how its nick completion worked, because I remembered that it had cycling, and found that it is the opposite of 2.0.x. In 1.8.11, p<tab> at the beginning of a line would only work once, but p<tab> in the middle of a line would cycle through all P nicks. It would be sexcellent if xchat had cycling for nick completion anywhere in the line.
Also, is there any way to remove the space that appears after a completed nick? My pinky is getting tired from deleting the space so frequently. |
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kevin
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 8:40 am Post subject: |
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yup,
can u please explain what's the number after "/set completion_amount "
edit:
and what's the configuration to get it working like before??
thx |
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Kyoshiro
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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If I've understood correctly its behavior, that option allows you to specify a limit. Let's say you've set it to 5 and there are 10 nicks beginning with A, and 3 begining with AN.
- If you type a<tab>, xchat will print you the 10 nicks matching without completing.
- If you type an<tab>, xchat will complete to the 1st match and if you keep hitting <tab> again, it'll cycle through the matching list.
When the number of matching nicks is above the completion_amount, it shows the list with no completion, when it's below, it completes and cycles through the list. |
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