Integrated Development Environment Code Auto-Completion Task

AKA: IDE Code Auto-Completion Task, IDE Code Completion Task.
Context:
- Input: shell command or source code typed by a IDE user.
- output: a set of autocomplete shell command or source code suggestions.
- It can be solved by an Integrated Development Environment Code Auto-Completion System that implements an Integrated Development Environment Code Auto-Completion Algorithm.
- It can include a Programming Auto-Completion Task and Command-Line Auto-Completion Task.
Example(s):
- an Intelligent Code Completion Task (Bruch et al., 2009) such as:
- a Qt Creator Auto-Completion Task,
- a Deep TabNine Code Completion Task.
- …
Counter-Example(s):
See: Human-Computer Interaction, Editing System, Language Model, Natural Language Inference System, Natural Language Processing System.

References

(Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete#In_source_code_editors Retrieved:2019-10-11.
- Autocomplete of source code is also known as code completion. In a source code editor autocomplete is greatly simplified by the regular structure of the programming languages. There are usually only a limited number of words meaningful in the current context or namespace, such as names of variables and functions. An example of code completion is Microsoft's IntelliSense design. It involves showing a pop-up list of possible completions for the current input prefix to allow the user to choose the right one. This is particularly useful in object-oriented programming because often the programmer will not know exactly what members a particular class has. Therefore, autocomplete then serves as a form of convenient documentation as well as an input method. Another beneficial feature of autocomplete for source code is that it encourages the programmers to use longer, more descriptive variable names incorporating both lower and upper case letters (CamelCase), hence making the source code more readable. Typing large words with many mixed cases like "numberOfWordsPerParagraph" can be difficult, but Autocomplete allows one to complete typing the word using a fraction of the keystrokes.

(Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete#In_command-line_interpreters Retrieved:2019-10-12.
- In a command-line interpreter, such as Unix's sh or bash, or Windows's cmd.exe or PowerShell, or in similar command line interfaces, autocomplete of command names and file names may be accomplished by keeping track of all the possible names of things the user may access. Here autocomplete is usually done by pressing the Tab key key after typing the first several letters of the word. For example, if the only file in the current directory that starts with x is xLongFileName, the user may prefer to type x and autocomplete to the complete name. If there were another file name or command starting with x in the same scope, the user would type more letters or press the Tab key repeatedly to select the appropriate text