Count the no of times a user used the suggestions given by the autocomplete

[xzavyer]

Is there any way to record the selection done by the user to create stats? for example, the autocomplete feature gave the list [‘hi’, ‘hello’] for ‘h’, I need to maintain a count for the no of times a user selected hi and no of times a user selected ‘hello’. Is there any API specifically for this?

[kingkeith]

there is currently no API for this, but you may be able to calculate this yourself by detecting the contents of the buffer around the caret/selection before and after the commit_completion was fired - I experimented with something similar here:

Retrieving inserted and deleted text

My proof of concept, will log changes to the console: (EDIT: just edited it to work with more than one cursor) import sublime, sublime_plugin def get_cursors(view): return [cursor for cursor in view.sel()] # can't use `view.sel()[:]` because it gives an error `TypeError: an integer is required` class RecordSessionListener(sublime_plugin.EventListener): prev_cursors = {} def on_new_async(self, view): self.record_cursor_pos(view) def on_activated_async(self, v…

But that won’t help if the user clicks on the completion to choose it instead of using a keyboard shortcut:

Issue: Clicking on an autocomplete entry does not fire the commit_completion command