[Geany] Python Auto-complete feature

[Manish Sinha]

Hi everyone,

Before starting this mail, I would like to tell you that I discovered 
Geany in the Ubuntu repos around one and a half years back. It was so 
light-weight, nearly non-existent dependencies (a few). I was taken back 
by the simplicity, and lightness of this software. I started propagating 
it and found many taker. When I did my summer internship at Microsoft - 
India, I suggested geany to some of the regular developers who were 
heavily loaded with work and were fed up with hundreds of open files in 
Visual Studio (its bulky). Even many people in MS liked it. Open Source 
in MS :)

Coming to the point. I am running Ubuntu 8.04.2 on my laptop. The 
highest version of Ubuntu possible on this Ubuntu version is 0.14, since 
0.15 requires a gtk version not in 8.04. Intrepid has 0.15, but it has 
some problems with my hardware and other reason is that 8.04 is a LTS. 
Hardy has 0.13 in repos and I installed 0.14 from getdeb.net ( a crude 
way, I know)

I have noticed that PHP has autocomplete in 0.14 but Python does not. 
Python's default syntax highlighting looks more complete than that of 
PHP. I use PHP and Python a lot, so Geany is a good choice from a long 
time. When I found autocomplete, my joy knew no bounds, but is this 
autocomplete restricted to PHP? Is Python autocomplete available in 
higher versions? 0.16 is the latest, but I didnt find anything in the 
changelog.

For Python autocomplete, do I have to do a "feature request"? I just 
wanted to know whether its already in higher versions since I cant 
install it due to gtk dependency.  If it's not implemented, I wish to 
request this feature. I am also ready to help the developers with this 
work.

Regards,
Manish Sinha

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