[Geany-devel] Geany FTW - better autocompletion

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Wed Nov 17 14:54:06 UTC 2010


On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:32:01 +0100
Simone Pellegrini <spellegrini at dps.uibk.ac.at> wrote:

> I really like geany as it uses scintilla, the only feature I feel is 
> missing is the intellisense like code competition for C++. I would like 
> to ask if anyone is working on a better code competition for C++. I am 
> not talking about ctags but something more advanced that can give me 
> code hints on the fly without the need of rebuilding the index.

I don't think anyone's working on that ATM. There was some work to make
Geany able to parse tags from memory instead of from disk, but it
wasn't finished.

Completing based on scope has some minor support but the stumbling
block is parsing local variables.

Nick



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