JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl

Tab completion of symbols

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#233 opened on Nov 22, 2019

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Description

As of now, I can't tab-complete something like \theta to get the unicode symbol as I can in the normal Julia REPL. This makes watching variables more difficult, as I have to go copy-paste the variable name from the source code into the debugging REPL.

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Implement tab completion for unicode symbols like \theta in the debugger's REPL.
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2
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Under 1 hour
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Clear
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