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Bug 423010

Summary:	contentAssist proposal overwrite parameter is needed but undocumented
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Chris McGee <cbmcgee>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.editor-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Chris McGee

2013-12-02 22:33:59 EST

There is no documentation for the really useful "overwrite" parameter for proposals. There is no other obvious way to replace characters the user typed to filter the proposals but does not match the case of the letters of the proposal.

https://orion.eclipse.org/help/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.orion.doc.isv%2FWikiDoc%2FOrion%2FDocumentation%2FDeveloper_Guide%2FPlugging_into_the_editor%2Forion-edit-contentAssist.html

For example, the user may start with this:

myObject.tos<Ctrl-Space>

Which might bring up this proposal in Java:

MyObject.tos |------------|
             | toString() |
             |------------|

The proposal can try to be smart and try to use substring matching but in this case it won't match the lower-case 's' with the upper-case 'S.'

With the overwrite parameter the proposal can be "toString()" and the Orion editor replaces the "tos."

Comment 1 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:52:06 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html