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The most basic use of this is when pressing TAB
on an empty line. If there’s an empty line above, this will offer to autocomplete a character name. Character names are suggested in the order:
TAB
will also offer character name completion if a line has a partial character name.
MARY (|
When the cursor is after a character name and opening parenthesis, TAB
will offer completions from fountain-character-extension-list
plus fountain-continued-dialog-string
.
MARY | I'm hungry.
When the cursor is at an empty line within dialogue, TAB
will add an empty parenthetical.
MARY (|) I'm hungry.
Likewise, if the cursor is within an empty parenthetical, TAB
will remove the parenthetical.
MARY (angry|) I'm hungry.
When the cursor is at the end of a non-empty parenthetical, either inside or outside the closing parenthesis, TAB
will move to the beginning of the next line if the next line is non-empty, otherwise it will insert a newline.
MARY (angry) I'm hungry.|
When the cursor is at the end of a non-empty line of dialogue, and the value of fountain-dwim-insert-next-character
is non-nil, TAB
will insert an empty line and the second-to-last previously speaking character.
MARY (angry) I'm hungry. JOHN|
The cursor will be left at the end of the next character, allowing successive presses of TAB
to cycling through additional character completion candidates.
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