On 26.07.21 18:46, ulf.freyhoff@gmx.net wrote:

From technical perspective that should be possible. I'm not
sure if there's a safe way to modify the cursor position after
the text is inserted, but that would likely be solvable too.

It would reduce the "natural" invocation of the call-tips
though as those are triggered by typing the '('.

Also it would be more difficult to extend the feature to
user defined modules as those then would need to provide
some additional information, or revert to just use the
names.

So overall, I'm not sure if that's the best way to go.

Maybe another option would be to improve the code snippet
handling which already has support for even inserting multi
line code snippets with some basic awareness of indentation.

Autocompletion and call-tips are handled by a dedicated
API provided by QScintilla. The main entry point is:
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/src/ScadApi.cc#L20

For templates / code snippets, see:
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/src/ScintillaEditor.cc#L1195

ciao,
Torsten.

I find when that style is used you end up with more keystrokes
moving the cursor and deleting the '0's & then going to end of line & ENTER.

Would it be possible to combine the template/snippets with the future
key customisation, to associate a key with a template?

Thus you could do 'tr' (autocomplete pops-up) ENTER ('anslate' added),
then you could have a couple of key-combinations to follow that with,
e.g. Ctl-alt-0 inserts a template of '([_])' {where _ is the cursor},
then you enter number,number etc. Or do the full '([0,0,0])' if that's your thing.
Ctl-alt-1 does '([1,1,1])' or whatever.

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On 27.07.21 00:56, MichaelAtOz wrote:

Probably not with the current solution which uses the
built-in "User-Lists" from QScintilla. I don't know if
those support input customization. But there is nothing
that would prevent us from having a 2nd way for accessing
the templates.

ciao,
Torsten.

Hi 2 all.

Is it not an idea to make this all more flexible.
I mean that everybody can change what he/she like,
after all we're all openscad users so 'parametrics' ;)

I do not know the exact principle but can imagine there is kind of ascii
file
where everybody can change it to the prefered result.

MichaelAtOz schreef op 2021-07-27 00:56:

On 28.07.21 08:36, info@hjcreations.nl wrote:

For text templates yes, see this thread for some details:
https://lists.openscad.org/empathy/thread/WYMTSQDMVOUQW7WJFPBSDZ4OEZCJ677W?hash=HANEQ5O6JNDIB2ILFTZCO2YKFX5EJE6P#HANEQ5O6JNDIB2ILFTZCO2YKFX5EJE6P

For the auto-complete feature it's not likely to have a
configuration option as this is either coming from the
source code for the built-in modules plus at some point
from the opened scad script.

ciao,
Torsten.

The issue is OpenSCAD is constructed with a bunch of library code.
That means it is not possible (rather not straight forward) to do detailed customisation.
You live within the capabilities of the libraries.

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