Hi there. If you've ever used an IDE like say, Visual studio or code-blocks, then you will know what im talking about. In visual studio, when your in scope, the cursor will automatically indent appropriately to make things neat. I guess thats the biggest issue Im having with the arduino IDE. Code completion would be nice too. If anyone know a way to accomplish this, I would leap with joy.
Thank you!
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November 11, 2016, 9:09am
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The Arduino IDE does automatically indent. As for code completion, there was some work done towards that a while back:
arduino:master ← OpenDevice:1.6.5-autocomplete
opened 05:47PM - 08 Jul 15 UTC
Working log
# Autocomplete
(https://gist.github.com/ricardojlrufino/19f8988416… 2be39d851a)
## Indexing of Libraries Classes
```
[*] Arduino Core (AVR)
NOTE: I believe you need to make manual adjustments, remove some useless things and add other (eg contants HIGH, LOW)
I'm not reading the #DEFINE for 'variables', because it will turn a mess.
[x] Multi Editor (many instances) support.
[x] User Lib's(3rd-party libs)
[x] Arduino Default Lib's
[x] Inheritance Support (Ex: Serial -> Stream -> Print)
[ ] Index only the important files of libs (for now is taking all .h)
```
## Autocomplete methods Classes
```
- [X] Instances
- [X] Static Classes
- [X] Pointer
- [X] Get the parameters of methods
- [X] Auto-Complete using partial name method (contains!)
- [X] Order by type
- [x] Handle Struct
[x] Handle static definition (Ex: EEPROM)
- [*] Handle extern (Ex: extern SPIClass SPI || extern EthernetClass Ethernet).
[] Multiple alias Ex: Serial1, Serial2, etc...
- [*] '#define' statements
I'm not reading the #DEFINE for 'variables', because it will turn a mess.
NOTE: not parsing blocks like: "#if defined(UBRR1H) extern HardwareSerial Serial1;" in HardwareSerial.h
[*] Disable on External MODE.
```
## Sketck - Autocomplete code being edited
```
[x] Show only included Classes.
[x] Show the variables of the current scope (use offset techniques)
[x] Detect current function (based at the cursor location)
[x] Update the position (offset) of the functions when the document is modified (new lines), without making the parser.
|- NOTES:
|- In Autocomplete they must appear first (deone).
|- Not perfect, variables declared in blocks (if / while) are considered as function scope, to improve the performace
[] Renaming / save as you must update the name in the Autocomplete Cache
- have to remove the libraries that BEEN REMOVED (imports removed ..) ...
[x] Parse source in-memory (do not need to save)
[x] No show 'functions' outsite functions, only show classes
[x] Detect custom variable names (EthernetClient client)
[x] When you open the existing Sketch loads the autocomplete for the added LIBs
[*] Parser in real time:
[x] Make the parser of changed line (ending with ';') and extract variables (and possibly errors).
[x] Perform parse if you are changing a line with errors (syntax)
[x] Perform parse if you are changing a line with errors (after compile)
[x] Perform parse if you are changing a line with variable declararion.
[] Enhancement: Parser current line using REXEX (for performance)
- IMPL NOTE: For while it is being made a parser all code, is fast but could be better
The whole parser was necessary because i had to update the position (offset) of the methods in the document,
but now this is already being done, I think a REGEX can be better
- NOTE: Only a parser(for same file) can run at the same time
```
[x] Async(Multi-tread) library parser... (based on Eclipse CDT AST Parser)
This is a external project: 'cplus-libparser', which can be used in other projects. ;)
[ ] Auto-Detect libraries dependency.
Related BUG: https://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=236
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/2174
[x] Auto generate variable names (ALT + ENTER) inside a function call (Ex: digitalRead(var))
[x] After inserting into code, it must also appear in autocomplete
[*] Auto-Complete of the main functions parameters
Ex: Serial.begin({lista develocidades}), digitalWrite( {variables} , [HIGH / LOW])
[ ] This information should be captured from the source code (documentation)
[*] Show syntax(parser) error's
NOTE: need to be well tested, I did a few tests
[x] Autocomplete for #include pick up all the libraries;
NOTE: The window of the options just close with ESC or when you click with the MOUSE out, not close with TAB
[*] - Update LibraryIndex/Autocomplete on change libs of sketch
[x] Fire on Import from Menu
[ ] Fire on Import from ZIP.
[*] Store/Load parsed result in lib.index on each folder..
[ ] establish policies to update the index (LibraryChangeMonitor (only for h. files))
- How to deal with the upgrade of core libraries? must validate the version?
[x] You may want to implement a Serializer / Deserializer (NOTE:for now the index is binary )
[] Use 'javax.swing.text.Document' to parser, to avoid strings allocations
TODO: It has not been confirmed whether there is this problem. but I think so ...
Need implement: org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.parser.scanner.AbstractCharArray
[x] Automatic adjustment of the position of the tooltip(completions window) to left or right
[] BUG(linux): The autocomplete window not working when you have another window "always on TOP"
[x] Autocomplete Shortcut's
- dw,dr,aw,ar (digitalWrite, digitalRead, analogWrite, analogRead)
- for,if,while,println
[x] Autocomplete of Sketch with multiple files
[x] BUG: When the SAVE event is launched cache and clean and only the modified classes are analyzed
[x] includes with global methods.
[x] includes with structs and static var.
[x] SyntaxErrorMarker - when a error occur, the highlight appear in two tabs
[x] #include - add other files of current Sketch in autocomplete for #include
[x] Compiler/SyntaxError - show multiple compiler erros at same time
[x] BUG - autocomplete cache/listeners problem on 'saveAs' sketch (It is keeping two versions)
[ ] Parse AVR Includes (/hardware/tools/avr/avr/include)
NOTE: At the moment I'm not sure which files should be done parser
PROBLEM: Including this autocomplete list can become large and confusing
but I'm not sure why it got stalled. My experiences with code completion has been that it's more trouble than it's worth but I think it would be a good feature to add as long as I could turn it off.
In the end, if you want a super advanced IDE then just use one. The Arduino IDE is specifically intended to be simple and beginner friendly. There are lots of alternatives if that's not to your liking.
Thanks for the reply. Ill check out some alternatives and that code completion Link!
