Code completion is vital to a modern development environment, and the availability of code completion in Observable drastically improves its usability. In all the IDEs I’ve worked with in the last few years, the display of code completion options is activated just by typing, without requiring the t…

Thanks for the suggestion! We’re still sticking with tab-based autocomplete rather than always-on - while developing the feature, I did field research and found that it’s nearly an even split for auto-vs-trigger completion, and our personal preferences at the office were for triggered completion, be…

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RandomFractals August 23, 2018, 9:40pm 3

good call! best notebooks I’ve seen and deved just use vanilla JS.

I’d rather not have observablehq UI pull in the world when I code and have it do it only on tab key hit request.

my 2 kopek on this

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