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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon JuliaLang

Show REPL tab complete hints for public names only

Open IanButterworth opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

REPL tab complete hints should be helpful for guiding discoverability, therefore since https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50105 has merged it seems logical to make hints only show for public names etc.

IIUC currently both public and private names are hinted.

Tab complete could still complete private names, but the user would need the knowledge that they exist, or just be trial-and-erroring their way through.

IanButterworth avatar Sep 15 '23 02:09 IanButterworth

It's logical, but also feels a bit evil 😆

brenhinkeller avatar Sep 15 '23 21:09 brenhinkeller

In Pluto we currently show all fields, but private names are greyed out, and they score lower in our sorting:

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Maybe the REPL could do something similar?

fonsp avatar Aug 25 '24 07:08 fonsp