Patent ID: 7313784

Claim:
An article of manufacture for use in a computer system for configuring a code assist function which suggests candidates responsive to a parsing of a partial program instruction statement to assist a programmer writing a computer program, said article of manufacture comprising a computer-useable storage medium having a computer program embodied in said medium which causes the computer system to execute operations comprising: displaying a list of user-selectable preferences, wherein user selectable preferences provide different configurations to configure how the code assist function displays representations of proposed candidates for a partial program instruction, wherein different user selectable preferences specify different ways to display the representations of one proposed candidate for the partial program instruction; allowing a user to select one of the user-selectable preferences; storing the selected one of the user-selectable preferences; and configuring the code assist function to display the proposed candidates for a partial program instruction according to the configuration provided by the selected one of the user-selectable preferences responsive to a parsing of the partial program instruction statement.