[ESS] completion

Andreas Leha @ndre@@@|eh@ @end|ng |rom med@un|-goett|ngen@de
Tue Feb 24 12:46:41 CET 2015


Hi Vitalie,

Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> writes:
>  >>> Andreas Leha on Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:52:35 +0000 wrote:
>
>  > Most useful for me would be
>  > 1. the completion in dplyrs verbs
>
> Feasible of course. We can even piggyback on rstudioapi:)
>
> I would especially interested in data.table within [] completion.
>  

That sounds encouraging.  I am looking forward to testing the first
working version.

>  > 2. completion of S3 / S4 methods
>
> This has always been in ESS in the sense that all arguments from all
> methods are provided for completion and eldoc. I don't see the narrowed
> completion based on the evaluated first argument as a major advantage.

Well, for some methods with many methods / arguments (print, plot, ...)
the list is quite useless as the relevant options are not visible.  But
maybe that is not too important.

Thanks,
Andreas




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