darcs patch: In expressions, tab-complete quoted strings as filenames. (+1 more)

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Feb 21 06:02:45 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:45 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Personally I'm not keen on this change.  Completion of filenames inside 
> strings seems like a rare case, and not worth breaking completion of 
> Haskell identifiers for.
> 
> Anyone else have any thoughts?

If it can be done without breaking completion of Haskell identifiers
then I'm all for it. I often do: content <- readFile "blah<tab>
and when that used to work it was very convenient. Of course completion
of identifiers is more important if we cannot have both.

Duncan



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