[Github-comments] [geany/geany] LaTeX autocompletion not working for macros (#1000)

[Marcelo Garlet Millani]

Maybe I wasn't very clear. All LaTeX macros are preceded by a `\`. However, not everything is a macro. Consider, for example, the following LaTeX code:

```latex
\newcommand{\macroname}{some \LaTeX code}
We defined a new macro called \textbackslash\texttt{macroname} which expands to \macroname.
```

it is undesirable to receive autocomplete suggestions when writing the words `macro` or `macroname`, since they are not macros. However, when writing `\macroname` I would expect to have autocomplete available, since the symbol is known. The current behaviour does exactly the opposite. Furthermore, current word separation understands `\textbackslash\texttt` as a single word, and autocomplete for `\texttt` is then no longer possible (even if it were a known symbol).

Since the autocomplete feature for symbols is implemented in geany, and there is already language-specific code for LaTeX and other languages, isn't this a geany issue?

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