Autocomplete over all tabs/project

[max.hauser]

Hi there,

first of all - thank you for this great editor!

I have one question: Is there a possibility to broaden the scope of the smart auto completion data base to all open files or even all files inside the current project instead of just the current file? That would be awesome.

Thanks,
Max

[rmichnik]

That would be awesome [2]

[obiefernandez]

Bumping to the top...

Would love this feature: Have autocomplete work across buffers, not only the currently active file. Would work wonders for web development.

[SackOfWrenches]

+1 for global/language-aware auto completion. +2 if it's aware of function signatures & arguments.

Essential for large projects. This would allow most of the people on my team to break the tractor-beam hold that Eclipse has on them and move to an editor that doesn't have all the visual appeal of a bucket of rusty nails. My Python sucks, but I'll set aside some time this weekend to see how much work this would be -- perhaps easier if a TAGS-like file format can be made that a Sublime plugin can slurp down.

[jepessen]

Agree. It will be great for my C#, C++ projects...

[hibbelig]

There is SublimeCodeIntel which offers code completion for some languages.

There is a ctags package for Sublime (https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags), too.

I vaguely remember that there is also a package dedicated to C/C++ projects, but I forgot its name.

[sspringerb]

+1 for autocompletion over files in a project, *but* only over files with the same extension

[iamnoah]

I wrote a plugin that pulls completions from every open tab:

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import sublime_plugin, sublime

class AutocompleteAll(sublime_plugin.EventListener):

    def on_query_completions(self, view, prefix, locations):
        window = sublime.active_window()
        # get results from each tab
        results = [v.extract_completions(prefix) for v in window.views() if v.buffer_id() != view.buffer_id()]
        results = [(item,item) for sublist in results for item in sublist] #flatten
        results = list(set(results)) # make unique
        results.sort() # sort
        return results


If you want to limit it to files with the same extension, add something like this:

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        if(view.file_name() is None):
            extension = ''
        else:
            name, extension = view.file_name().rsplit('.',2)
        extension = '.' + extension

        views = []
        for v in window.views():
            fileName = v.file_name()
            if (fileName is None or v.buffer_id() != view.buffer_id() and fileName.endswith(extension)):
                views.append(v)
        # get results from each tab
        results = [v.extract_completions(prefix) for v in views]
        # the rest is the same


[ask]

Nice, didn't now about extract_completions method.
By the way, when was it introduced ?

[castles_made_of_sand]

extract_completions has been around since ST1 days