[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Questions about auto completion (#2071)

[elextr]

> I mean Java docs. When I type, the popup menu doesn't show up, unless using Ctrl-space. It also doesn't show up in Java's comments.

So you actually mean embedded Java doc comments?  

Automatic autocompletion doesn't happen inside comments and strings since they are meant to be text and only coincidentally contain words that happen to match symbols.  But you can still trigger autocompletion manually in the case you are actually typing a symbol name or an existing word.

The first time the keybinding is pressed the symbols (and tags) autocomplete list is shown, so the names have a symbol type icon in front of them.  

The second time it shows completions for all words in the document, so symbols from the document will still appear, but tags will disappear unless they happen to also occur in the document.  Notice that the symbol type icons disappear because its just words, not symbols, so they have no type.

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