Re: [Nano-devel] RFC: who would like to have word completion?

[Brand Huntsman]

On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:57:26 +0100
Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> wrote:

> > It would be more useful if it could read in words from other files
> > (all files in a project, but needs a way to define what files to
> > include) and maybe the ability to specify one or more dictionary/
> > programming_language files.  
> 
> Oof.  Complications.  Resource eaters.  No, not good for nano.

Syntax highlighting is complicated and eats resources, and those who don't 
need/want it either turn it off in configs or don't compile the feature into 
nano. Word completion dictionaries and "project mode" would be opt-in like 
syntax highlighting. In its current state, the feature is only partially 
functional, and many more users would find it useful when it can acquire words 
from external sources.