Is there a way to activate autocomplete without hitting tab in `jupyter-lab`? This is actually worki...

# datascience

[Hampus Londögård]

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

[Ilya Muradyan]

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

[Hampus Londögård]

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

[Ilya Muradyan]

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.

[Hampus Londögård]

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