command completion project

[Richard Crozier]

Dear Sudeempam,

The command completion project sounds pretty nice, but I do have one 
suggestion, how about fixing basic command completion for packages as 
part of the project too?

Command completion currently doesn't work for code in packages (by which 
I mean namespaces created by putting code in a folder starting with 
'+'). So if you put a function file myfunction.m in a folder like 
'+mypackage', you then call it on the command line like:

mypackage.myfunction

you can also nest package folders so it's like:

my_package.my_sub_package1.myfunction

my_package.my_sub_package2.myfunction

but Octave can't currently do code completion on the package namespaces 
as you type them. Ideally it should complete the first package name, 
then after the dot, suggest any subpackage names or functions in the 
package etc.

Regards,

Richard



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