Follow up on thread from a month ago (was: Something like Visual Assist for Eclipse )

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Dale King - 27 Jun 2006 21:15 GMT

Back in May there was a thread about the features of a C++ tool called
Visual Assist and why didn't Eclipse have these features.

I wanted to provide some follow up information.

For reference that thread is at:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_frm/thread/17eeb
0689bc8b381

One of the features mentioned that I thought was a good idea was the use
of CamelCase when doing code assist. So this would look would be like
you could type throw new NPE<ctrl>-space and it would expand that to
NullPointerException.

I submitted an RFE for that with Eclipse and it turns out that feature
is already part of the upcoming version 3.2 of Eclipse (which is part of
Callisto, which is the simultaneous release of 10 eclipse projects).

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Jeffrey Schwab - 27 Jun 2006 21:28 GMT

> One of the features mentioned that I thought was a good idea was the use
> of CamelCase when doing code assist. So this would look would be like
> you could type throw new NPE<ctrl>-space and it would expand that to
> NullPointerException.

This usually done in Vim using the :abbrev command. I wonder how hard
it would be to have a script create the abbreviations automatically.

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ddimitrov - 27 Jun 2006 23:01 GMT

For what it's worth, this feature has been in IDEA for the last few
years - just map the CmaelHumpLeft/Right actions to your preferred key
combo.

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