Tab completion for sub-modules names

[Miguel Goncalves]

In the Julia REPL if I have a super-module Food which loads in a sub-module Fruit,

module Food

using Fruit

include("nutrition.jl")
export carbohydrate
export fat
export protein

end

then pressing tab after typing,

Food.

I get the list,

carbohydrate    fat    protein

But the sub-module Fruit does not show up for tab completion. However, after manually typing,

Food.Fruit.

I do have tab completion for everything which is exported by the Fruit sub-module.

Could this behavior be changed to support tab completion for sub-modules names? This will facilitate working with nested modules.

[Tony Kelman]

What version of Julia are you on? My memory might be hazy but there's a chance this has been implemented recently on master? If not, then this does sound like it would be useful to implement.

[Yichao Yu]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Tony Kelman <to...@kelman.net> wrote:

What version of Julia are you on? My memory might be hazy but there's a chance this has been implemented recently on master? If not, then this does sound like it would be useful to implement.

I believe imported and unexported symbols are intentionally not included in the auto completion.

[Stefan Karpinski]

That's right. This has nothing to do with Fruit being a submodule and everything about it being a binding in Food that's not exported and therefore not part of Food's externally facing interface.

[Miguel Goncalves]

I see, but how is it that I can still access variables exported by Fruit, even though, Fruit is not exported by Food? E.g.:

Food.Fru[TAB]

does not work but

Food.Fruit.[TAB]

does work.

[Miguel Goncalves]

My Julia is 18 days old:

Version 0.6.0-dev.166 (2016-08-11 16:27 UTC)
Commit f964e10 (18 days old master)
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu