ACE Editor Autocomplete to open on .

[ktalebian]

If you enable live autocomplete, the tooltip opens up as you type things. However, it will never open up on pressing . until you type something else after.

So if I were to type fo there will be a tooltip trying to match fo to something (for or function, etc). However, if type fo. then the tooltip disappears, and it will not open until I type a further letter.

I have custom autocompletion keys, and I really want the tooltip to open up with all my suggestions.

Let's say I have user as a special key with name, age, profile as the suggestions. I want to be able to type event. and the tooltip to show name, age, profile. Right now, I have to type event.n for example to get name to show as a suggestion

[maxHoo]

I am in the similar situation for a long time and made many posts, but still get no answer yet. It seems except modify source code, cannot solve this problem.

I hope it can set different identifier-cut to each custom autocomplete function. But when using live autocomplete, the prefix will not update until the string ends or it has no match. For example, type "cat." the prefix is "c", but actually I want detect "cat" end with "."

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[mkslanc]

Fixed by #5147 . To use this feature you just need to register completer with triggerCharacters similar to

 editor.completers = [
            {
                getCompletions: function (editor, session, pos, prefix, callback) {
                    var completions = [
                        {
                            caption: "append",
                            value: "append"
                        }, {
                            caption: "all",
                            value: "all"
                        }
                    ];
                    callback(null, completions);
                },
                triggerCharacters: ["."]
            }
        ];