💡 RFC: Autocomplete feature in the editor

[isaiahdahl]

Background & Motivation

I want to be able to write a chart and have it autocomplete my chords based on the chords already used in the chart.

Or If I'm starting a chart from scratch. I want it to show me the relevant chords in the key I am in.

For example, if the key was C you'd get autocomplete suggestions for Db, D, Eb, E, F, Gb, G, Ab, A, Bb, B

I think this is close to the experience I'd like to see. Except that it would complete if you pressed Tab, and if would put your cursor after the bracket when you hit enter.

Proposed Solution

Possible solutions

Another idea is to have buttons at the Top & or button of the editor that show the same list of chords, You could click those buttons and it would drop a chord where your cursor is.

[bkeepers]

The implementation I currently have in Chord Book is really naive but seems to work pretty well. It tracks chords used in the current doc and autocompletes them on ctrl+space or whenever [ is typed.

I want it to show me the relevant chords in the key I am in.

Love this.

Another idea is to have buttons at the Top & or button of the editor that show the same list of chords, You could click those buttons and it would drop a chord where your cursor is.

I think some kind of toolbar for inserting/formating would be awesome. Maybe a floating toolbar on click/selection like this: