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How to enable Autocomplete in the Ace editor
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example.html
<html>
<body>
<div id="editor" style="height: 500px; width: 800px">Type in a word like "will" below and press ctrl+space or alt+space to get "rhyme completion"</div>
<div id="commandline" style="position: absolute; bottom: 10px; height: 20px; width: 800px;"></div>
</body>
<script src="https://rawgithub.com/ajaxorg/ace-builds/master/src/ace.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="https://rawgithub.com/ajaxorg/ace-builds/master/src/ext-language_tools.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.3.min.js"></script>
<script>
var langTools = ace.require("ace/ext/language_tools");
var editor = ace.edit("editor");
editor.setOptions({enableBasicAutocompletion: true});
// uses http://rhymebrain.com/api.html
var rhymeCompleter = {
getCompletions: function(editor, session, pos, prefix, callback) {
if (prefix.length === 0) { callback(null, []); return }
$.getJSON(
"http://rhymebrain.com/talk?function=getRhymes&word=" + prefix,
function(wordList) {
// wordList like [{"word":"flow","freq":24,"score":300,"flags":"bc","syllables":"1"}]
callback(null, wordList.map(function(ea) {
return {name: ea.word, value: ea.word, score: ea.score, meta: "rhyme"}
}));
})
}
}
langTools.addCompleter(rhymeCompleter);
</script>
</html>
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