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Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:02 pm**

At first, autocomplete window needs to get wider:

Second, change behaviour of TAB key in this help tip. At this moment, by pressing TAB, we accomplish currently selected command. I propose better way.

When you type

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#PB_Ev

and then press TAB, IDE shows

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#PB_Event

Why? Because we have three possible continuations:

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#PB_Event3D
#PB_Event_
#PB_EventType_

then, you type "T" key then press TAB, IDE shows all

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#PB_EventType

commands.

Then, you type "_" to weed out "3D" commands, then type "D" to show all "Download" variants, e.t.c...

Got the idea? If not, see Unix-way command-line prompting completion on wikipedia

Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:05 pm**

Both suggestions have been in the Preferences for years.

Well, you don't press Tab to complete, but you can tell it to only
show items starting with what you've typed, which is the same
end result (typing "_" to weed out "3D" commands, etc).

Here's what I see when I type "#PB_Event_" into the IDE.
A nice window size, with "3D" commands weeded out.

Posted: **Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:25 pm**

Oh gosh, I need to look at preferences more often...

@PB, second question works if your weeding letter is one, that would be enough. But if you want to reach #PB_Sprite_BlendInvertDestinationAlpha, manual way will be long enough. Prompt-TAB way will be much faster.

Whole sequence:
#PB_Spr[TAB]Bl[TAB]I[TAB]D[TAB]A

Of cource, you can reach keyword using up-down narrow keys, but this way is not... true

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