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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Auto Completion</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body><h1>Auto completion</h1>
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<p>Notepad++
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has autocompletion capabilities, allowing it to finish a word that
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you are typing by giving a list of possible options, or immediately
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inserting it when only one possibility is left (powered by the
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Scintilla component).</p>
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<p>There
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are two types of auto completion. </p>
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<ul><li>The first one uses a list of well
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known keywords and provides a hint based on that and goes by the name
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Function Completion</span>. It is triggered by selecting <span class="menu_item">Edit->Auto-Completion->Function
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Completion</span> or automatically when a certain amount of characters is
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typed (see also <a href="Preferences.html#Backup_Auto-Completion">Preferences</font></a>).<br><img src="images\screenshots\autocomp.png">
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</li><li>The second one retrieves
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all the words from the current file and provides hinting on that,
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named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Word Completion</span>. This is triggered by selecting <span class="menu_item">Edit->Auto-Completion->>Word
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Completion</span>, or by entering a set number of characters (again, see <a href="Preferences.html#Backup_Auto-Completion">Preferences</a>). Word completion is the only type that can
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automatically finish a word without displaying a list of options
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first.
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</li></ul>Somewhat
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related but not exactly the same is the display of <span style="font-weight: bold;">function parameter
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hints, or calltips</span>. This is a small tooltip that will show the
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required parameters (and possibly some details of them) for a
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function a call to which is being edited. This is specifically
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targeted for programming purposes and serves no real value for other
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tasks. The calltip will highlight the current parameter being edited
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for a quick emphasis on what is actually needed. It is purely
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passive and will not modify the text in any way. To trigger a calltip (if one can be found), select <span class="menu_item">Edit->Auto-Completion->Function parameters hint</span>.<p>Autocompletion
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is language based (see <a href="Languages.html">Languages</a>) and has different API files for
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each language. For more details on these API files and how to make your own, refer to <a target="_blank" href="http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/notepad-plus/index.php?title=Auto_Completion">NpWiki++</a>.
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</body></html>
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