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Report #: 24133

Status: Closed

Stopping Code Insight, Parameter hints etc

Project: Delphi

Build #: 2166

Version: 10.0

Submitted By: Lasse Anderson

Report Type: Suggestion / Enhancement Request

Date Reported: 1/26/2006 4:24:01 AM

Severity: Serious / Highly visible problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 248823

Resolution: Duplicate (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 11.0.2687.6711

Duplicate of: 23681

Voting and Rating

Overall Rating: (9 Total Ratings)

5.00 out of 5

Total Votes: 6

Description

Code insight and other automagic stuff is really cool, but there should be away to ignore it. Now Delphi can completely freeze for 5 seconds while I'm typing and it bugs the heck out of me. Pressing Escape should abort all kind of background things and tell Delphi that right now I just want to type. This is the single most annoying feature in Delphi 5 and it continues to be so in Delphi 2006.

The feature is really useful so I don't won't to turn it off completely, but quite often it's just a nuisance.

Steps to Reproduce:

Open up a largish project (mine's ~600 kLOC) and start coding. Draw the mouse over a variable, class name or whatever Delphi will try to lookup for you.

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Comments

Alexandr Ustinov at 1/29/2006 6:38:18 PM -

I`m sure, the best solution is to put Code Insight stuffs in fully threaded mode,
without groundless slowing down Editor sensibility.

Craig Farrell at 1/23/2007 3:53:24 PM -

You can turn OFF *automatic* invocation at Tools | Editor Options | Code Insight. This doesn't turn OFF the CI feautres. It only turns OFF the automatic invocation. The features can still be invoked via hotekys: Code Parameters: Shift+Ctrl+Spacebar, Code Completion: Ctrl+Spacebar, Code Browsing Ctrl+Click,etc.

Daniel England at 3/6/2007 2:50:56 PM -

Yes, you can turn the automatic invocation off but it still seems logical that pressing escape should stop whatever processing is occuring so that you can resume working.

Its certainly what I expect and I find myself doing it, even though I know it doesn't work. I have the automatic completion option turned on but there are still those occasions where I don't want the interruption and instinctively press escape...

Daniel.

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