Is there a way to activate autocomplete without hitting tab in

jupyter-lab

? This is actually working as I'd like in

jupyter-notebook

which makes me confused. I tried adding

hinterland

but didn't seem to help for Kotlin kernel

There is an extension in Notebook that makes it work. No such extension for Lab ATM, but if someone wants to make it up, I will provide all the needed info and help. https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-jupyter/issues/188

What would you approximate as time required for someone to complete this?

One needs to find an appropriate extension point(s) to use: https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/extension/extension_dev.html#developer-extensions Examples there may help. For completion, you should only send completion requests when user types, I think it's a couple of days deal. For errors reporting, you should send a custom request to kernel and process its response. UI also needs to be added. I think it's a week or so.

A week is way too much for me to find time 😞