Computer programming language statement building and information tool

A system for passively assisting a user in real-time to modify a programming language statement, the system comprising:

• a programming language editor having a character position cursor and a randomly positionable pointer;
• means for partially compiling, in an automatic manner, available ones of a plurality of programming language statements in the computer program;
• means for automatically generating an assist window that contains a set of programming language statement information in a location proximate to the character position cursor, the assist window being selected from a group consisting of a selection menu assist window and an informational display assist window;
• means for automatically receiving a selection by the user from the set of programming language statement information;
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• means for modifying a present programming language statement based at least in part on the selected programming language statement information.

A real-time method for assisting a user to modify a programming language statement in a computer program, the real-time method comprising:

• enabling a programming language editor having a character position cursor;
• automatically determining an identity of input to the programming language editor by the user;
• identifying a present programming language statement and at least one segment of the present programming language statement based on a location of the character position cursor;
• automatically resolving symbolic portions of available ones of a plurality of programming language statements by means of a reverse parse evaluation into a partial program compilation that generates identifiable tokens for each of the at least one segment therein in response to the input being an on-demand request by the user;
• determining a finite set of information related to the present programming language statement and the at least one segment of the present programming language statement based on the automatically generated partial program compilation;
• automatically generating an assist window of the finite set of information;
• receiving a representation of a selection by the computer programmer from the finite set of information;
• modifying the present programming language statement based at least in part on the selected information;
• enabling execution of an editing task in response to the input being a programming language editor command;
• enabling a first type of commit of an identified menu item from a selection menu assist window in response to the input being a commit key, wherein the step of enabling a first type of commit includes:
• identifying the commit key as a non-delimiter type commit key;
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• discarding the commit key;
• enabling a second type of commit of an identified menu item from a selection menu assist window in response to the input being a commit key, wherein the second type of commit includes:
• identifying the commit key as a delimiter type commit key;
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• inserting the commit key after the identified menu item in the present programming language statement;
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• adding to the present programming language statement at a location of the character position cursor in response to the input being a non-commit key type input character.

An apparatus for supplementing an incomplete computer programming statement, comprising;

• a display device automatically displaying an incomplete computer programming statement, the display device further displaying automatically, proximate to the display of the incomplete computer programming statement, a dynamic list of one or more textual programming entities;
• an input device that receives user input selecting one of the textual programmatic entities displayed by the display device;
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• a processor for automatically modifying the incomplete computer programming statement by adding to the incomplete programming statement the selected textual programmatic entity.

A method in a computer system for supplementing an incomplete computer programming statement, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) automatically displaying the incomplete computer programming statement;
• (b) proximate to the display of an incomplete computer programming statement, displaying a dynamic list of one or more textual programmatic entities;
• (c) receiving a user input selection of one of the displayed textual programmatic entities;
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• (d) adding the selected textural programmatic entities to the displayed statement.

A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer system to supplement a computer programming statement by performing the steps of:

• (a) automatically displaying the computer programming statement;
• (b) proximate to the display of an incomplete computer programming statement, displaying a dynamic list of one or more textual programmatic entities;
• (c) receiving a user input selection of one or more of the displayed textual programmatic entities;
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• (d) adding the selected textual programmatic entities to the displayed statement.