Re: [ide-dev] Auto content assist

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/21/2017 10:19 AM, Daniel Megert wrote:

There are bugs regarding this topic. General one and a JDT specific one. In JDT you can actually enable this by entering all characters as auto activation triggers. Not sure CDT offers that too.

This is a workaround, but the result is suboptimal because the cursor isn't placed in the proper location after a completion for continuous completion in some cases, and the fact that content-assist is synchronous in JDT make the IDE quite laggy.

Overall, auto-content assist depends on having content assist asynchronous, or at least not blocking the UI Thread, as it's doing currently for most editors.

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