Hi
Please can anyone tell me if it's possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to manually activate the autocomplete popup?
I'm so used to doing this from my Java editor I'd love to be able to do it from this excellent HTML editor.
Cheers.
Keyboard shortcut for auto-complete
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clarkedesign
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Hi,
You can assign a keyboard shortcut to autocomplete in the usual way (Options / keyboard Shortcuts)
The default is CTRL + SPACE
I've tried using this though and it doesn't seem to do anything.
I want to bring up the autocomplete list of options for an exisiting element and using CTRL + SPACE does nothing - not sure if this is a bug.
Say for example I've set the 'text-decoration' to underline. If I position my cursor on the 'underline' text and press CTRL + Space nothing happens. What I'd expect is to see a pop-up menu giving me other options for text-decoration as it would if I were typing the tag in fresh.
I've tried chaning the default keystroke with no changes.
Can anyone else confirm this problem or has anyone found a workaround.
Thanks
Sean
You can assign a keyboard shortcut to autocomplete in the usual way (Options / keyboard Shortcuts)
The default is CTRL + SPACE
I've tried using this though and it doesn't seem to do anything.
I want to bring up the autocomplete list of options for an exisiting element and using CTRL + SPACE does nothing - not sure if this is a bug.
Say for example I've set the 'text-decoration' to underline. If I position my cursor on the 'underline' text and press CTRL + Space nothing happens. What I'd expect is to see a pop-up menu giving me other options for text-decoration as it would if I were typing the tag in fresh.
I've tried chaning the default keystroke with no changes.
Can anyone else confirm this problem or has anyone found a workaround.
Thanks
Sean
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chrisjlocke
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Hmm. Hard to explain the 'rules' for when it pops up (or doesn't) but you can't force it, like you can in Microsoft VB, for example.
As another example, in creating CSS pages, it will happily popup if the CSS is 'valid' (no text between the braces) but as soon as you type 'f' (for font-family for example) you can't force the autocomplete with CTRL SPACE. Also, if you type 'font' (and the text goes from red to black, to denote its valid) you can't force the auto complete to appear with valid entries beginning with 'font'.
But hey, its better than nothing at all!
As another example, in creating CSS pages, it will happily popup if the CSS is 'valid' (no text between the braces) but as soon as you type 'f' (for font-family for example) you can't force the autocomplete with CTRL SPACE. Also, if you type 'font' (and the text goes from red to black, to denote its valid) you can't force the auto complete to appear with valid entries beginning with 'font'.
But hey, its better than nothing at all!
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clarkedesign
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Hey, I get what you mean it does seem to popup every now and again but not when I want it to. it should popup when I press CTRL-SPACE without asking whether it should or not.
I've been using TopStyle Pro for a while now and must say that I prefer WeBuilder, but without this kind of fundamental editor feature I'm not sure that I can move over to weBuilder just yet.
Please can admin let us know if they can tweak the interface a little to allow CTRL-SPACE (or whatever) to bring up the auto-complete menu for an existing item just as it would for a new item. All of the other software around does this, so I don't think that we are asking too much.
I've been using TopStyle Pro for a while now and must say that I prefer WeBuilder, but without this kind of fundamental editor feature I'm not sure that I can move over to weBuilder just yet.
Please can admin let us know if they can tweak the interface a little to allow CTRL-SPACE (or whatever) to bring up the auto-complete menu for an existing item just as it would for a new item. All of the other software around does this, so I don't think that we are asking too much.
