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<p>but once the calltip is shown it no longer respects the scope so well and it just shows all functions.</p>
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<p>Yeah, calltips don't look at context AFAIK, only scope autocomplete does, for named scopes (ie classes, namespaces) only, it doesn't know about lexical scopes.  And variable scope auto-completion only works for variables defined at top level, so its isn't very useful for modern C/C++.</p>

<p>The whole area could probably use a re-think instead of piling patches over patches, especially if <a href="https://github.com/techee" class="user-mention">@techee</a> doubts it.</p>

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