[ESS] completion in R files

Vitalie Spinu spinuvit at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 12:09:25 CET 2013


  >> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>
  >> on Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:00:26 +0100 wrote:

  > and I have the auto-complete as I expect on TAB - but still M-TAB is not
  > working - and I found out why: My window manager (awesome) was catching
  > Alt-TAB. I changed it and now it is working M-TAB is working again!

Indeed, pretty much every OS/window-manager out there binds M-TAB. 


  > Actually, if users are used to use TAB for autocomplete (as it is thae
  > case in most other editors) instead of M-TAB, this mioght explain why
  > this question comes up again and again?

Yep, that was precisely the reason why we tried to activate TAB
completion - it is common in other editors. I thought I had added this
configuration information into docs; will check again and may be put in
a more prominent place.

    Vitalie



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