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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
April 8, 2010
Question

Autocomplete slow

  • April 8, 2010
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G'day

When one keys in a partial tag, one can press CTRL-SPACE to complete the tag, eg typing:

<cffuCTRL-SPACE

will complete the <cffunction> tag. Cool.

However it takes CFB about 1-1.5sec to actually react to this, during which time if one keeps typing, the tag is never completed.  And to be frank, I could have simply typed the rest of the tag name in less time than that.  So using this feature makes for very stilted development.

I would expect to be able to type this - at full speed without any pausing for CFB to work out what it needs to do:

<cffuCTRL-SPACEnCTRL-SPACEmyFunctionRIGHT-ARROW acCTRL-SPACE puCTRL-SPACE RIGHT-ARROWoCTRL-SPACEfaCTRL-SPACE RIGHT-ARROW hiCTRL-SPACEHere's my hint

and end up with:

<cffunction name="myFunction" access="public" output="false" hint="Here's my hint">

However I just get this:

<cffu n myFunction ac pu o fa hi Here's my hint

(or something like that, you get my drift).

Are other people finding this tag too?  I don't think my machine is under-spec'ed for the task here... it's quite happily running Open BlueDragon, CF9, MySQL (+ MySQL Manager and Query Browser), Tomcat, Apache, Firefox, Skype... [etc] simultaneously, and none of them seem to be slow.

Another thing related to this (kinda).  I have "automatically insert single proposals" (or whatever it is) switched on, which is quite handy.  However when I type in:

<cfsavCTRL-SPACE

I might expect to get this as a result:

<cfsavecontent variable="|">

(Where the | is the cursor).  Because <cfsavecontent> has only the one attribute option, and it's required.  It'd be good if CFB was savvy enough to grasp this.


Comment?

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Adam

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tony_garcia2
Participating Frequently
April 10, 2010

I used to think that autocomplete was slow until I found out that the delay is configurable. If you go to:

Preferences > ColdFusion > Editor Profiles > Editor > Code Assist

You'll see a setting named "Delay before code assist (in milliseconds)"

I set it to 100 and it's a lot zippier now.

Did you check this setting?

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Adam Cameron.Author
Inspiring
April 12, 2010

Isn't that just the delay for the automatic code completion?  I mean as opposed to triggering the code completion with CTRL-SPACE as I am doing.

It's difficult to tell, but I guess it could be slightly faster when I decrease the setting from 2500 to 100.  Although it could be because I am editing  amuch smaller file than I was last week.

However I am uncertain about this remedy because it's certainly not taking 2.5sec to do the completion when I press CTRL-SPACE, so I do not see the connection between the setting value and the delay here.  Plus it makes no sense to add a delay there anyhow: it makes sense before anything happens automatically (and it drives me up the wall when CFB tries to help me when I type without me asking it to); but it makes no sense for there to be a delay after I've explicitly keyed CTRL-SPACE to tell CFB "complete this please".

I guess once I get back to my project work (in the larger files), I'll pay more attention to the completion speed.

Cheers for your suggestion though!

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Adam

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Anonymous
April 12, 2010

Whoops! Yeah, you're right. That setting is for the code assist, not the autocomplete. My bad!

And yes -- I've also noticed that sometimes the autocomplete is slow but I didn't make note of whether it was only with large files or not. I'll report back if I have anything more to add.

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