YogiYang wrote:Finally Auto-complete is added to LC's IDE but this is a very basic feature that all the languages and IDEs I have used till date have it. Why charge for such a core and basic feature that LC developers forgot to implement in their zest to add new unwanted features to LC?
For the first part of the above, I would guess you just haven't used that many languages/IDEs, there are plenty that do not have autocomplete, or even any editor other than a plain text based one, but as I said before, it is a nice feature to have, just not a *must* have feature, and there are many ways to get it without paying a dime such as in various plugins, etc again, as I had mentioned previously.
For the second part, the charged version ($79. ) is
not charging for that feature alone, there are 2 other features not available in the free Oss version, the ability to use
all 3rd party extensions, and the ability to submit to the Apple app store (free apps). Both of those I would think contribute more to the price than autocomplete, again since you can achieve ac in so many other ways.
YogiYang wrote:I dropped the ideas of even trying out LC OSS or otherwise just because it does not have Auto-complete! It is not use wasting my time. Even open source general purpose IDEs like Eclipse give this Auto-complete feature for multiple programming languages that they support!
As Klaus pointed out, that is up to you of course, I certainly don't intend to waste
your time, your thread was just one of two where this subject had come up and various other people
may be interested to know it.
HOWEVER, as Richard pointed out, many other editors can be used to edit Lc scripts, not just the one that Lc ships with or GLX2. Limit yourself, and
you limit
your future, if you expand your learning, you might find trade offs that are acceptable or
not, but you'll expand
your possibilities immensely.