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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 in Mathematica version 9?

Background

I think it's possible to improve the auto-completion significantly by using camel humps completion. If you want to see it in action, I made a small screen-cast to demonstrate it for Mathematica version 8 (please switch to 1080p and fullscreen):

• For all users from good old Germany or for users who prefer classical music: here is a GEMA friendly, musically educating version.

• Users from Germany can enjoy this screen-cast in comforting silence!

The basic idea is to

• allow ListLiPlo, ListLPlot or even LLP to be expanded to ListLinePlot. Since all Mathematica built-in functions are consistently named, this works pretty well
• to sort the list of suggestions by importance. In the screencast, I used the appearance of built-in functions in all packages of the AddOns directory as measure. The more often a function was used, the more likely it is to be on top of the list if it matches. To give an example: When you expand Pl in version 8, you get a list consisting of Placed, Placeholder, PlaceholderRepeated, Plain, Play, ... Those are all functions I barely use. I the auto-expansion I wrote, Plot, PlotRange and Plus are on the top of the list and after them all the others follow. In version 9 this was fixed and the completion box seems to have a better ordering.

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 in Mathematica version 9?

Background

I think it's possible to improve the auto-completion significantly by using camel humps completion. If you want to see it in action, I made a small screen-cast to demonstrate it for Mathematica version 8 (please switch to 1080p and fullscreen):

• For all users from good old Germany or for users who prefer classical music: here is a GEMA friendly, musically educating version.

• Users from Germany can enjoy this screen-cast in comforting silence!

The basic idea is to

• allow ListLiPlo, ListLPlot or even LLP to be expanded to ListLinePlot. Since all Mathematica built-in functions are consistently named, this works pretty well
• to sort the list of suggestions by importance. In the screencast, I used the appearance of built-in functions in all packages of the AddOns directory as measure. The more often a function was used, the more likely it is to be on top of the list if it matches. To give an example: When you expand Pl in version 8, you get a list consisting of Placed, Placeholder, PlaceholderRepeated, Plain, Play, ... Those are all functions I barely use. I the auto-expansion I wrote, Plot, PlotRange and Plus are on the top of the list and after them all the others follow. In version 9 this was fixed and the completion box seems to have a better ordering.

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 in Mathematica version 9?

Background

I think it's possible to improve the auto-completion significantly by using camel humps completion. If you want to see it in action, I made a small screen-cast to demonstrate it for Mathematica version 8 (please switch to 1080p and fullscreen):

(For all users from good old Germany or for users who prefer classical music: here is a GEMA friendly, musically educating version http://youtu.be/iIG8_Pmzjn0)

The basic idea is to

• allow ListLiPlo, ListLPlot or even LLP to be expanded to ListLinePlot. Since all Mathematica built-in functions are consistently named, this works pretty well
• to sort the list of suggestions by importance. In the screencast, I used the appearance of built-in functions in all packages of the AddOns directory as measure. The more often a function was used, the more likely it is to be on top of the list if it matches. To give an example: When you expand Pl in version 8, you get a list consisting of Placed, Placeholder, PlaceholderRepeated, Plain, Play, ... Those are all functions I barely use. I the auto-expansion I wrote, Plot, PlotRange and Plus are on the top of the list and after them all the others follow. In version 9 this was fixed and the completion box seems to have a better ordering.

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 in Mathematica version 9?

Background

I think it's possible to improve the auto-completion significantly by using camel humps completion. If you want to see it in action, I made a small screen-cast to demonstrate it for Mathematica version 8 (please switch to 1080p and fullscreen):

• For all users from good old Germany or for users who prefer classical music: here is a GEMA friendly, musically educating version.

• Users from Germany can enjoy this screen-cast in comforting silence!

The basic idea is to

• allow ListLiPlo, ListLPlot or even LLP to be expanded to ListLinePlot. Since all Mathematica built-in functions are consistently named, this works pretty well
• to sort the list of suggestions by importance. In the screencast, I used the appearance of built-in functions in all packages of the AddOns directory as measure. The more often a function was used, the more likely it is to be on top of the list if it matches. To give an example: When you expand Pl in version 8, you get a list consisting of Placed, Placeholder, PlaceholderRepeated, Plain, Play, ... Those are all functions I barely use. I the auto-expansion I wrote, Plot, PlotRange and Plus are on the top of the list and after them all the others follow. In version 9 this was fixed and the completion box seems to have a better ordering.