International Business Machines Corporation

David Geoffrey Screen

Gordon Douglas Hutchison

Joseph R Winchester

Joseph Kuruvilla Chacko

Conor Peter Beverland

Megan A Beynon

Adam T Murray

A code assistance feature provides a user with a set of suggested program code insertions at a given point in the program code being edited. For example, in response to a user command, the feature identifies syntactically correct possible insertions derived from a search for insertions of a compatible type. The feature identifies members in the set of possible code insertions that can be expanded via a field dereference or subroutine call to provide further possible code insertions for selection by the user.

Determination of a set of candidate code insertions for insertion in program code

A method and system for code editing using copy and paste operations are provided. The method includes copying a section of text () from a source program text () and providing source context information () for the copied section of text (). The method further includes pasting () the copied section of text () to a destination location, including: defining the pasted text () as separate from the destination program text (); carrying out editing () to conform variables of the pasted text to the variables of the destination program text (); and then integrating () the pasted text into the destination program text (). The step of carrying out editing to conform variables of the pasted text () to the variables of the destination program text () references the source context information () and context information () of the destination program text (). Providing source context information () may either provide a rich schema storable in association with the copied text (), providing metadata information relating to the variables of the copied text, or may provide a link to the source program code context information ().

Method and system for code editing

To facilitate code building, a user can identify an expression to be copied at a position in a source section of program code. Occurrences of the user-selected expression form a set of candidate code expressions. The user-selected expression may include some or all occurrences of a variable within an enclosing scope in the source section, program statements, etc. The formed set of candidate code expressions is presented to the user for user selection of one or more of the expression occurrences within the set. The set occurrences selected by the user are pasted to one or more target locations.

Selecting a set of candidate code expressions from a section of program code for copying

A process and system for assisting a user to write new lines of code of a computer program based on code examples. A first line in each code sample matching a specified anchor line. A loop having a custom line branch and a code assist branch is executed. The custom line branch generates a new line for the computer program via a custom line provided by the user. The code assist branch generates a new line for the computer program via code assist. The code assist determines a set of assist lines from the code samples, translates the assist lines to a user context in each code example, selects from the assist lines set of preferred lines sequenced in an order of preference, presents the set of preferred lines to the user, receives a preferred line selected by the user, and stores the preferred line as a new line.

Code assist for multiple statement patterns including automated translation of code examples to a user context

A process and system for assisting a user to write new lines of code of a computer program based on code examples. A first line in each code sample matching a specified anchor line. A loop having a custom line branch and a code assist branch is executed. The custom line branch generates a new line for the computer program via a custom line provided by the user. The code assist branch generates a new line for the computer program via code assist. The code assist determines a set of assist lines from the code samples, selects from the assist lines set of preferred lines sequenced in an order of preference, presents the set of preferred lines to the user, receives a preferred line selected by the user after the user edits the selected line to fit the user's context, and stores the preferred line as a new line.

Code assist for multiple statement patterns

A system, method, and computer program product provide visualization of anonymous information about overall meeting invitation status. An attribute is generated for display at an invitee device and the attribute in a displayed image represents a person's decision: accept, decline, or tentative. Each decision is displayed by different color, attribute shape and/or display orientation. For example, an individual acceptance will be displayed as a small red square in the display image. An individual decline will be displayed as a small green square in the display image. An individual tentative decision will be displayed as a small yellow square in the display image.

Visualization of meeting invitee status as a method of collaboration

This presentation shows a method to present e-mails to human users only, by encoding the body of the e-mail with a user defined keyword, attaching the distorted image of the keyword to the e-mail and sending it to the intended user. This keyword image is extracted and verified by the user in a CAPTCHA style test on the receive side to authenticate human user participation and then e-mail body is decoded and presented to the intended user.

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Winchester, United Kingdom

David Geoffrey Screen