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Code completion is an autocompletion feature in many integrated development environments (IDEs) that speeds up the process of coding applications by fixing common mistakes and suggesting lines of code. This usually happens through popups while typing, querying parameters of functions, and query hints related to syntax errors.
Command-line completion allows the user to type the first few characters of a command, program, or filename, and press a completion key (normally Tab ↹) to fill in the rest of the item. The user then presses Return or ↵ Enter to run the command or open the file.
It's common for code tooling tools to use either compiler engines or compiler-style parsers, but Visual Assist's approach is more flexible and means the tool is more useful in real-world coding environments. When coding, a developer may have incompletely written code, but an assistance tool needs to still function correctly, as Visual Assist does.