HI Lex,

thanks for the quick response.

Your example is almost as it, the only difference, and I don't know if it matters but my structure definition is as follow

IN FILE toto.h typedef struct { int blah; int foo; }myStruct_t;

IN FILE toto.c #include "toto.h"

void TestFct(void) {     myStruct_t    a;

a-> (here I would expect to see blah and foo being suggested by Geany)  }

For the platform I'm on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 and using Geany 1.22

Thanks in advance

________________________________ From: Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com To: Sebastien Berthiaume a1800bert@yahoo.com; Geany general discussion list geany@uvena.de Sent: Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [Geany] Geany autocompletion

On 4 October 2012 21:19, Sebastien Berthiaume a1800bert@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering, I'm trying to set the autocompletion in Geany and I have some problem.

I tryied to generate a tag file using the command:

geany -g [file.tags] [*.c *.h] (from my source folder)

Then I load it using the "Menu-Tools-Load Tags" command.

But, it does not display any possiblities when I type [myStruct->] other than the one found in the local file...

BUT, if I right click on my structure and go to "Go to tag definitions" it open the right files and show me the possibilities. Thus, I guess my tag file is ok.

Can someone explain me why, I can't get the autocompletion to look for the definitions and offer me choices?

Just to be sure, you have something like

struct fred {   int blah;    int foo; };

in a file that is fed to the geany -g mytags.c.tags

You have loaded the mytags.c.tags file automatically or manually ( and menu->help->debug messages has a message saying it loaded)

In some file (other than the one above) you have

struct fred b;

when you type b-> you don't get blah and foo as options?

You have not said what version or platform you are using, but the above works on the current git version on Linux.

All the above declarations must be top level for it to work, it is noted in the manual that it won't work for local declarations.

Finally you can't goto a declaration that is in a tag file, the tags information doesn't include the file the tag is from.

Cheers Lex

Thanks

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Le 04/10/2012 14:15, Sebastien Berthiaume a écrit :

HI Lex,

thanks for the quick response.

Your example is almost as it, the only difference, and I don't know if it matters but my structure definition is as follow

IN FILE toto.h typedef struct { int blah; int foo; }myStruct_t;

IN FILE toto.c #include "toto.h"

void TestFct(void) { myStruct_t a;

a-> (here I would expect to see blah and foo being suggested by Geany) 

}

As Lex pointed out, this currently doesn't work with local variables, and a is a local variable. This is a limitation of the C/C++/Java parser that doesn't emit tags for local variables.