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From: "Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" <thiagofga AT ambr DOT com DOT br>
Subject: Re: RHIDE: Sugestion: prototype completion
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At 14:10 05/04/99 +0000, you wrote:
>"Thiago F.G. Albuquerque" <thiagofga AT ambr DOT com DOT br> suggested:
>
>> In the editor, you type the name of the function (or part of it). Then, you
>> press some key combination. Then, RHIDE searches in the files listed in
>> [a list of header files similar to] Syntax Help\Files to Search
(...)
>> Then it displays the function's prototype in the 
>> screen.
>> 
>> Here's as example:
>> 
>> You type 
>> 
>> blit_
>> 
>> and press, say, ^\. And then that "blit" you typed becomes
>> 
>> void blit(BITMAP *source, BITMAP *dest, int source_x, int source_y,
>> int dest_x, int dest_y, int width, int height);
>> 
>> and the cursor is positioned under the first argument.
>> 
>> What do you say? It would speed up our coding.
>
>Are you sure it helps? I don't know, you then must delete the name of the 
>parameters.

Yes... in spite of this, this is an action I do quite often: type the name
of the function, press ^F1, copy the prototype of the function and paste it
in the code. I do it to avoid fliping between the editor and the info
vierwer windows to check the arguments' types (and their order) as I fill
them.

The original idea was to clone VC++ 6's completion. I didn't see it (yet);
a friend told me it is really handy. But I think it would be too difficult
to implement. So, I suggested this instead -- which would already save me a
lot of key strokes.

Regards,
Thiago