[MonoDevelop] Code completion, code folding and regions

[John Luke]

Hello,
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 19:40 -0400, JimD wrote:
> Is there a way to turn on more code completion?  For example,  If I type:
> 
> Gtk.MessageDialog dlg = new
> 
> and then press space, I was hoping to get a popup (like VisualStudio)
> with the list of objects I can create with MessageDialog selected.
> 
There is some code for this but it is not currently enabled.
I don't currently remember what was wrong with it, perhaps bugzilla
does.

> Since that didn't happen, I continued to type this:
> 
> Gtk.MessageDialog dlg = new Gtk.MessageDialog(
> 
> After typing the '(' character, I was expecting to get a list of
> parameters.  Is this possible yet?  Will this be possible?  Having to
> lookup a bunch of function parameters can really kill productivity.
> 
Same for this. Although it is a little more complicated because of
formatting the parameters by language , etc.

> Are code folding and code regions (# region foo) planned features of the
> IDE?
> 
Yes.  Last I heard gtksourceview was working on adding it in their CVS
version.  Then we will have the choice of depending on that newer
version or building a private copy of it to provide the new features for
everyone.