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In all my years programming, there's been only one feature that I've seen that I consider The Killer Feature of Autocomplete, and I've only seen it in one edito
by ken 8y ago
In all my years programming, there's been only one feature that I've seen that I consider The Killer Feature of Autocomplete, and I've only seen it in one editor: Emacs.
I don't want to complete with all the other code everybody else in the world has written. I want to complete with the words I wrote in a comment 3 lines ago. Or my README I've got open in another window. Or the JSON config file I was editing. That's my litmus test: can it autocomplete from all my other text? Kite can't.
I played with this online demo, and I actually found it pretty frustrating. It kept trying to replace what I was writing with snippets that other people, apparently, had written. I guess that could be useful when trying out a new library, but the rest of the time, it's just going to get in my way.