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

Thanks Dave and Ray. I'll try to retrain my fingers to type Ctrl+Spc, and
to treat Google search results with more skepticism.

-arthur.

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

> 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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