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Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by mattigames »

imh wrote: post #30

I wish someone would figure out the right UX for partial autocompletion. e.g. I type "wo" and my phone suggests ("would", "work", "wonder"), there should be an easy way to say I'm trying to type "working" rather than clicking the "work" autocomplete then backspace, then "ing". I'd imaging TabNine has this problem in spades, since it does such long autocompletes. It could suggest "unsigned long long" when I've typed "…

UX-wise holding tab would be the best, meaning tab => use completion (like it works now), holding tab => use this completion but show me further possible completions of that word; if it doesn't have any just keep the caret there (for me to finish it writing manually)

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by function_seven »

gumby wrote: post #39
imh wrote: post #30

I wish someone would figure out the right UX for partial autocompletion. e.g. I type "wo" and my phone suggests ("would", "work", "wonder"), there should be an easy way to say I'm trying to type "working" rather than clicking the "work" autocomplete then backspace, then "ing". I'd imaging TabNine has this problem in spades, since it does such long autocompletes. It could suggest "unsigned long long" when I've typed "…

Typing an 'r' is faster than clicking on "work" then backspacing.

That can lead to ("Work", "Worry", "Word") so you'd then have to type the 'k'. Now you could have ("Work", "Worker", "Worked") and still are missing the variant you want.

It'd be nice to long press "Work" at step one, get that completed without a space being inserted, then tap 'i' to get ("Working", "Workings", "Workingmen")

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by achamayou »

gbear605 wrote: post #49
achamayou wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the amount of traffic is predictably small though, you can be confident that it’s not uploading the entirety of your source code, so perhaps some mechanism to estqblish that would help?

Some code is a lot more valuable than other code. For example, token files for connecting to remote servers.

There is no good reason for authentication secrets to be in your source tree though.

I’m not suggesting this is perfect in any case, but it would at least place an upper bound on whatever amount of IP leakage you think might happen.

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by modernerd »

“If TabNine does not work as soon as you install it, this is a bug and you should file an issue.”

Just wonderful. All dev tools should be like this.

I got great results for a PHP/JS project straight away — an instant upgrade for me just to support continued development.

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by karlding »

imh wrote: post #30

I wish someone would figure out the right UX for partial autocompletion. e.g. I type "wo" and my phone suggests ("would", "work", "wonder"), there should be an easy way to say I'm trying to type "working" rather than clicking the "work" autocomplete then backspace, then "ing". I'd imaging TabNine has this problem in spades, since it does such long autocompletes. It could suggest "unsigned long long" when I've typed "…

Sounds like what you want is fuzzy searching (say fzf [0]) over autocomplete suggestion results. You could type the prefix, and then fuzzy search by typing the suffix to get your desired word (while letting autocomplete fill in the middle of the word).

[0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by eridius »

imh wrote: post #30

I wish someone would figure out the right UX for partial autocompletion. e.g. I type "wo" and my phone suggests ("would", "work", "wonder"), there should be an easy way to say I'm trying to type "working" rather than clicking the "work" autocomplete then backspace, then "ing". I'd imaging TabNine has this problem in spades, since it does such long autocompletes. It could suggest "unsigned long long" when I've typed "…

Xcode has handled this for years. In Xcode, when autocompletion is presented, hitting Tab will complete the longest unique prefixed subword for the currently-selected tab item. If this results in only having one completion option left, then it completes the whole thing (e.g. adding method arguments and whatnot). Similarly, hitting Return will just complete the whole entry instead of the longest unique prefixed subword.

By that I mean if you have 2 autocompletion options `addDefaultFoo()` and `addDefaultBar()`, and you type `add` to get those options, hitting Tab will fill in `addDefault`, and then hitting Tab again will fill in the rest of the selection.

Re: Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages

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Post by eridius »

itdaniher wrote: post #28
jacob-jackson wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your concerns are understandable. It is about as risky as installing an editor plugin which updates automatically. The private keys used to sign releases are kept offline and would not be available to an attacker even if they compromised my online accounts. Finally, TabNine will work correctly if you deny it network access (say, by blacklisting update.tabnine.com).

...as risky as installing a proprietary editor plugin which updates automatically, yes. Also, AFAIK most understandings of MIT, BSD, and Apache 2.0 licenses require you to acknowledge the copyright holders of the source code you compile into your binary, even if the licenses permit binary distribution. I can't find your "Copyright (c) 2018 Tokio Contributors" or "Copyright (c) 2014 The Rust Project Developers" that I…

As risky as ones that don't update automatically either. Just because a plugin doesn't update automatically doesn't mean it doesn't still have the capability of doing network access. Unless you're actually sandboxing all your IDE plugins and denying most of them network access (and verifying on every new IDE plugin you install whether it's allowed network access), but I don't believe that's how IDE plugins generally work.
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