About using and customizing the front-end's auto-completion feature
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Is it possible to make v9 ignore case when completing names?
In v8, I could type, say, fulls or texf to get FullSimplify or ...
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Autocomplete not working on Mma9 on Linux
I started using Mathematica 9 on Ubuntu 12.10 and, sometimes, autocomplete doesn't work. The suggestions window shows up for just a fraction of second, and quickly disappears.
Do you have any idea on ...
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Autocomplete short symbol names in non-global context
Is it possible in v9 to autocomplete the short symbol names when one is operating in a context other than Global`? I.e. after evaluating the following:
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Function definitions in init.m doesn't work
I can't get any function defined in $UserBaseDirectory/Kernel/init.m to work.
For example:
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How to activate the collapsed template list on V9
Is there way to activate the collapsed template list?
By "collapsed template list", I mean the little arrow which appears when ones types the name of an built-in function, as shown on this video.
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Is it possible to improve Mathematica's auto-completion feature?
In this answer Brett Champion describes how one can intercept and modify the suggestions used for auto-completion.
Question: Is it possible to modify the suggestion for the automatic auto-completion ...
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Auto-completion doesn't work as my expectation in version 9.0
When I input the following line in version 8, and press Ctrl+K after Re, I can get a drop-down auto-completion list including ...
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Template completion
In version 8, if one evaluates
test::usage="test[x,y]";
then types test, then shift-cmd-k (or shift-ctrl-k), a template ...
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How can I overload autocompletion to work with full contexts?
I would like for the autocomplete feature to search through contexts, for example if I have a symbol named A`B`C`MyFunction, when I type A` and press "cmd + shift + k" it will complete it.
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To ...
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How to make the suggestion box appear?
When you type a function in Matlab, quickly a suggestion box comes up showing functions similar to the one you're typing. I thought that Mathematica didn't have this but one day, I typed half of a ...
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Command Completion
Note: As of version 9, this functionality is available and works out of the box.
I've a few questions about Command Completion in Mathematica. I recently discovered this feature, and it's really ...
