Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/25/07 12:48

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Plus I don't use things like code completion anyway. It gets in the way
> of my typing - I'm often not looking at the screen when I type.

I *started* to have that problem in a serious way.
But after becoming familiar with the enviornment, code-completion actually
meant FEWER keystrokes to write my code.

For example, when you type "mysql_" it pops up with a bunch of choices.
If you're not expecting it, escaping out of it and typing what you started
to type is frustrating as hell.

But once you get used to the code-completion popup, you can finish the
command with a couple of down arrows and a tab, instead of having to type
out the whole command.
And if you're subject to making spelling mistakes, as most mortals are, then
doing it that way means you never misspell a command.

Beyond that, I sometimes use variable names that are spelled the same, but
capitalized differently.
Code-completion pops up to show which variables are defined - with the
defined capitalization.
So it not only helps in avoiding misspellings, but miscapitalizations as
well.

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