word part autocompletion

[Nick Treleaven]

Hi,
I've made the Geany IDE autocomplete parts of words in the AC list (up
to an underscore or upper-case letter) when pressing tab, but I modified
scintilla to do so.

Would you accept a patch for a SCI_AUTOCGETCURRENTTEXT message? If so I
assume it should take buffer and buffer_len arguments rather than
return allocated memory?

It seems messy to use the SCI_AUTOCGETCURRENT index to scan through the
autocompletion string.

Regards,
Nick

[Neil Hodgson]

Nick Treleaven:

> Would you accept a patch for a SCI_AUTOCGETCURRENTTEXT message?

Yes.

> If so I
> assume it should take buffer and buffer_len arguments rather than
> return allocated memory?

The convention is to copy into a char* lParam assuming that the
buffer is long enough, returning the length (not including the
terminating \0). If the lParam is NULL then no copying is performed
but the length is still returned, allowing the container to allocate a
buffer.

Neil

[Nick Treleaven]

OK thanks (I should have read the manual more thoroughly ;-)).

Please see patch attached.

Regards,
Nick

[Neil Hodgson]

Nick Treleaven:

> Please see patch attached.

OK, committed.

Neil