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[Zonbidesu]

I set my AUTO TAB config to a lower number (500) so I just get the list of things in the last couple of rooms I've been in. However, sometimes I get ethings that get in the way of other words I'd like to auto tab:

bro [TAB] bronze
when I ant
bro [TAB] brownie

So I have two questions: Can you make things added to the auto tab most recently have higher precedence? And can you have TAB go through the list?

Room Name
Room Desc
Bronze sword
brownie sprite
dragon

1. Dragon
2. brownie
3. bronze

bro [TAB 1] brownie [TAB 2] bronze (Switches between things that match 'bro')

Also, can you delete items from auto tab?

bro [TAB] bronze [SHIFT+TAB or w/e]
#BRONZE DELETED FROM AUTO TAB!
bro [TAB] brownie

Thanks,
Zonbidesu.

[Scandum]

Recent lines already have a higher priority. I might improve auto tab at one point of time, but right now it's not a priority to me.

[tarryn]

Zonbidesu,

I think you are quite right that multiple tab completion would be very helpful. Once a completion occurs, it should cycle to the next item and so on, until the possibilities are exhausted. At that point, it would return to the text you started with:

bro [TAB] brownie [TAB] bronze [TAB] bro [TAB] brownie

What you are describing with SHIFT-TAB might possibly be accomplished with a macro + function. However, even if it didn't remove from the auto tab or tab list, it could still do a reverse cycle:

bro [TAB] brownie [TAB] bronze [SHIFT-TAB] brownie [SHIFT-TAB] bro

Indeed, I have implemented this exact functionality! You can apply this patch against the 1.99.5 source tree:

http://www.kylimar.com/tintin/SuperTabCompletion-1.99.5.patch

Completion by default now searches through the tab list first, but then cycles through the scrollback buffer once the tab list is exhausted. Searching just the scrollback buffer or just the tab list, forward or backward, now exists as separate #cursor functions.

There are several smaller bug fixes in the cursor.c file as well.