<p>In <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/862#discussion_r49617250">src/editor.c</a>:</p>
<pre style='color:#555'>>      }
> -  else if (typed != '.')
> -          return;
> +
> +  if (typed == '.')
> +          pos -= 1;
> +  else if (match_last_chars(sci, pos, context_sep))
> +          pos -= strlen(context_sep);
> +  else if ((ft->id == GEANY_FILETYPES_C || ft->id == GEANY_FILETYPES_CPP) &&
> +                  match_last_chars(sci, pos, "->"))
> +          pos -= 2;
> +  else if (ft->id == GEANY_FILETYPES_CPP && match_last_chars(sci, pos, "->*"))
> +          pos -= 3;
> +  else
</pre>
<p>No, I meant that <code>\</code> is the character that separates namespaces <em>in PHP code</em>, so that typing <code>\</code> should trigger completion of namespaces members.</p>

<div class="highlight highlight-text-html-php"><pre><span class="pl-pse"><?php</span><span class="pl-s1"></span>
<span class="pl-s1"></span>
<span class="pl-s1"><span class="pl-k">namespace</span> <span class="pl-en">Ns</span> {</span>
<span class="pl-s1">    <span class="pl-k">class</span> <span class="pl-en">Cls</span> {</span>
<span class="pl-s1">        <span class="pl-k">static</span> <span class="pl-k">function</span> <span class="pl-en">f</span>() { <span class="pl-k">return</span> <span class="pl-c1">42</span>; }</span>
<span class="pl-s1">    }</span>
<span class="pl-s1">}</span>
<span class="pl-s1"></span>
<span class="pl-s1"><span class="pl-c1">namespace</span> { <span class="pl-c">/* root namespace -- yes, that's how PHP actually does it, too */</span></span>
<span class="pl-s1">    <span class="pl-c1">echo</span> <span class="pl-c1">Ns\</span><span class="pl-c1">Cls</span><span class="pl-k">::</span>f(); <span class="pl-c">/* see how fun it is! */</span></span>
<span class="pl-s1">    <span class="pl-c">/* BTW, a leading \ makes the namespace resolution absolute, rather than relative to the current one */</span></span>
<span class="pl-s1">    <span class="pl-c1">echo</span> <span class="pl-c1">\Ns\</span><span class="pl-c1">Cls</span><span class="pl-k">::</span>f(); <span class="pl-c">/* same as above */</span></span>
<span class="pl-s1">}</span></pre></div>

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