Actually "Neat!!!" is not sufficient, this is massive, most modern code is written using parameters and locals almost exclusively, globals are only functions, and C++ moves many of them to members. So global autocompletes have significantly reduced in usefullness. Adding locals and parameters to autocomplete is a significant upgrade.

If you have some C++ code, please test how it behaves - I mostly tested it just with Geany's C (plus tried Boost to see how types are reported and what needs to be stripped from them).

One thing I noticed that doesn't work very well is multiple member accesses in a row like

a.b.

Geany starts from scratch when looking for a type when . is typed so for b it doesn't look at the particular b which is a member of a but it searches b globally. Unfortunately if we wanted to generalize this, we'd have to parse possibly complex parts of code in front of . by ourselves.

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