Add completion of filenames in the Editor

Dear Spyder dev Team,

I remember that Spyder used to complete filenames in strings in earlier versions, just as matlab does (provided that the the file is in the current working directory). However, it doesn’t seem as this is still possible in the most recent Spyder (3.2.6, 3.2.8) versions, at least on Ubuntu…

How to recreate:

Open Spyder on some directory that contains files e.g. \mytest.py \mytest_data.csv type “mytest_<tab>” Spyder won’t complete the filename to “mytest_data.csv” neither in the shell nor in the Editor…

Package Versions

• Spyder version: 3.2.8
• Python version: 3.5.4
• Qt version: 5.6.2
• PyQt5 version: 5.6
• Operating system: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic

Dependencies

pyflakes >=0.6.0 :  1.6.0 (OK)
pycodestyle >=2.3:  2.3.1 (OK)
pygments >=2.0   :  2.2.0 (OK)
pandas >=0.13.1  :  0.21.1 (OK)
numpy >=1.7      :  1.14.1 (OK)
sphinx >=0.6.6   :  1.7.1 (OK)
rope >=0.9.4     :  0.10.7 (OK)
jedi >=0.9.0     :  0.11.1 (OK)
psutil >=0.3     :  5.4.3 (OK)
nbconvert >=4.0  :  5.3.1 (OK)
sympy >=0.7.3    :  1.1.1 (OK)
cython >=0.21    :  None (NOK)
qtconsole >=4.2.0:  4.3.1 (OK)
IPython >=4.0    :  6.2.1 (OK)
pylint >=0.25    :  1.8.2 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

No, it is not possible, as I clearly said above. You need to use a Spyder project.

[daducci]

Ah ok, I see it now. Do you think it would e possible, instead, to use the current “working directory” (i.e., the directory used for files and IPython consoles) as the path to be used for relative paths? This value is always available also in case a project is not created. I am just wondering as my typical “use case” is to open .py files from the file explorer (Fider.app in my case) with Spyder and execute the code inside it cell by cell.