Name autocomplete in text editor about bonsai

[impworks]

@wwsalmon hey! I tried a few approaches the one that worked best for this particular project's case was to create a makeshift pop-up using jQuery and a lot of keydown handlers. I haven't completed it yet though due to lack of free time, but I intend to finish it somewhere around April.

[impworks]

Apparently, SimpleMDE authors did not keep compatibility with existing CodeMirror plugins (which rely on a global variable named CodeMirror):

sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor#418

The solution will require either recreating the show-hint plugin in a custom manner, or forking SimpleMDE to bake it in.

[wwsalmon]

@impworks stumbled upon this while trying to implement something similar with SimpleMDE. Did you end up implementing this functionality? Did you make a custom fork of SimpleMDE for it?

[wwsalmon]

@impworks gotcha! what were some other approaches that you tried?

[impworks]

@wwsalmon well, basically I tried to:

1. Make show-hint plugin work with current build of SimpleMDE (appears impossible)
2. Rebuild SimpleMDE with extra plugins
3. Bind SimpleMDE and some other pop-up library together

The catch here is that Bonsai is not a typical web app. It is supposed to store family history data for hundreds (!) of years and be rewritten from scratch every 10-20 years using modern approaches and technologies. So the rule of thumb is to prefer components that "work" out of the box, and solutions that require as little specific knowledge as possible.

[impworks]