Re:Sublime Text 4 [video]
by RBerenguel on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:50AM
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GTAGS/CTAGS/"any other family of tag processors/generators" could be used for autocompletion in Emacs/Vim way before, and they were just "part" of autocompletion.
I'm ok with "code intelligence", or even more precisely "autocomplete based on code intelligence". All good. Just not "intellisense", please ;)
> I personally wouldn't go back from VSCode to an editor that merely provides autocompletion
Autocompletion can draw from multiple sources. By default, before LSP hooks have a chance to add themselseves to the list, I have following sources configured:
'(ac-source-symbols
ac-source-variables
ac-source-functions
ac-source-features
ac-source-filename
ac-source-abbrev
ac-source-dictionary
ac-source-words-in-same-mode-buffers
ac-source-semantic
ac-source-yasnippet
ac-source-files-in-current-dir)
The distinction seems important as I personally wouldn't go back from VSCode to an editor that merely provides autocompletion but can't reason about the language beyond basic syntax highlighting.
I caught myself using "Google" as a verb when talking about searching on Amazon the other day and "Xerox" has become synonymous with "copying" for an entire generation, so I wouldn't judge too harshly on people using "Intellisense" as a generic phrase even if it can harm communication ("But does this editor have Intellisense?").