PR# 5216 Autocompletion window does not open within quotes

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: peter_gummer

Category: EiffelStudio

Priority: Medium

Date: 2005/07/22

Class: Bug

Severity: Non-critical

Number: 5216

Release: 5.6.1118

Confidential: No

Status: Analyzed

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Synopsis: Autocompletion window does not open within quotes

Description

The steps below demonstrate that the autocompletion window does not open within quotes, unless you also type something between the quotes.

To Reproduce

1. Create and compile a new EiffelStudio project.

2. Open ROOT_CLASS in the editor.

3. Edit the routine comment of the 'make' routine thus:
			-- Creation procedure `'.

4. With the cursor sitting between the quotes, hit Ctrl+Space. The autocompletion window fails to open.

5. Type something between the quotes, thus:
			-- Creation procedure `m'.

6. With the cursor sitting before the closing quote, hit Ctrl+Space. The autocompletion window opens successfully.

Problem Report Interactions

From:peter_gummer Date:2005/07/22 Download

==== Paul: Fri Jul 22 15:37:02 PDT 2005 ===============================

Peter,

Current completion cannot be performed in comments. This was a bug that permitted incorrect completion. This bug has now been remedied in 5.6.1122 an later versions.

We will probably support user requested (CTRL+SPACE) completion in comments in the future.

==== Paul: Fri Jul 22 15:37:02 PDT 2005 ===============================