Re: 'use tab key for autocomplete' still documented even though it's been removed

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: "rod(at)iol(dot)ie" <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
Cc: Arthur Prokosch <prokosch(at)umich(dot)edu>, pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 'use tab key for autocomplete' still documented even though it's been removed
Date: 2014-06-17 20:28:45
Message-ID: CA+OCxozDK8FAAA83dd5u0r4zoXiJREr8+ENuovARUyA_c7tgAQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:
> On 17/06/2014 21:16, Arthur Prokosch wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Coming from a unix background, I'd really like to be able to use the
>> <tab> key within the Query Tool's editor box to bring up
>> autocompletions. It's documented even though the feature seems to be
>> long-dead. Can this be fixed?
>>
>> According to the documentation I find at
>> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.8/query.html
>> that should be possible: "You can optionally enable the Tab key to
>> activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the
>> options dialog." But there's nothing apropos in the options dialog, nor
>> any relevant registry keys or values matching "tab."
>
> Hi there,
>
> That's a really old set of documentation - the current version is 1.18,
> and here's the corresponding page in the up-to-date docs -
>
> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/query.html
>
> - where you'll see that ctrl-space is now used for autocompletion. :-)

Yeah, but it also says "You can optionally enable the Tab key to
activate the autocomplete feature as well - the can be done on the
options dialog.". I've removed that now for 1.20.

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