moderately inappropriate

code completion, spammers, life, etc

After a lot of requests, I found some hacking time to put together the control+space keybinding. For those of you that don't know, this allows you to hit control+space while typing (for example): SomeWindow.GdkWi and have it try and code complete from there. If there is only one option, it will just fill it in, otherwise it will attempt to show you the regular code completion dialog with the closest match selected.

In doing this, I discovered and fixed a lot of usability issues occuring with code completion. Those of you who used 0.1 or even a snapshot from a couple days ago will most likely be fairly pleased with how much better completion works now.

We have had some interesting developments going on in MD recently with regards to languages other than C#. First, jluke has put together some limited Java language bindings to allow java projects to be built and compiled. The support there is not nearly what exists for C#, but its still a start. As well we have had someone interested in putting together nemerle bindings for MD.

I am very excited about all these developments because it shows that MonoDevelop can be more than just a C# editor, and with some dedication from interested parties, could become an amazing IDE for any language.

In other news, Spammers suck. Give me a piece of paper and a pencil and I can prove it (Yes, i gave in to quote day, but I wont quote F&L). In particular blog spammers *really* *really* suck. They kill me.

Posted by tberman at March 26, 2004 07:57 AM