CodeMirror: Autocomplete demo

function getCompletions(token, context) {
  var found = [], start = token.string;
  function maybeAdd(str) {
    if (str.indexOf(start) == 0) found.push(str);
  }
  function gatherCompletions(obj) {
    if (typeof obj == "string") forEach(stringProps, maybeAdd);
    else if (obj instanceof Array) forEach(arrayProps, maybeAdd);
    else if (obj instanceof Function) forEach(funcProps, maybeAdd);
    for (var name in obj) maybeAdd(name);
  }

if (context) {
    // If this is a property, see if it belongs to some object we can
    // find in the current environment.
    var obj = context.pop(), base;
    if (obj.className == "js-variable")
      base = window[obj.string];
    else if (obj.className == "js-string")
      base = "";
    else if (obj.className == "js-atom")
      base = 1;
    while (base != null && context.length)
      base = base[context.pop().string];
    if (base != null) gatherCompletions(base);
  }
  else {
    // If not, just look in the window object and any local scope
    // (reading into JS mode internals to get at the local variables)
    for (var v = token.state.localVars; v; v = v.next) maybeAdd(v.name);
    gatherCompletions(window);
    forEach(keywords, maybeAdd);
  }
  return found;
}

Press ctrl-space to activate autocompletion. See the code (here and here) to figure out how it works.