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Erratic autocomplete behavior
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Erratic autocomplete behavior


  • Subject: Erratic autocomplete behavior
  • From: Zachary Pincus <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:30:06 -0700

Hello,

I'm having trouble using XCode's code completion feature. Specifically, some times it works and other times it doesn't even seem turned on, and I can't figure out why this is. I can't seem to find anything in the list archives to provide me with any clue, either.

The setup:
I've got a project using externally-generated makefiles. All appropriate source and header files are included in the XCode project file (I just added the entire source directory to the project as file and folder references). I'm coding a plain-vanilla C/C++ command line tool.


Code completion/indexing/etc. are all turned on. I know this because sometimes, it works. When I'm typing, the ellipses appear, or the completion appears, or the pop-down box appears, as appropriate.

Other times, when working in the same files, typing the same things, no ellipses (etc.) will appear. I can press F5 to force autocompletion, but this just cycles through matching symbols defined *in the current file* -- no symbols from other files appear, no ellipses or drop-down box appears, and so forth.

After some time of using XCode to edit various files, code completion seems to magically turn itself on. Then it works just fine. But if I quit, or close the project (or maybe even close an editor), completion seems to turn itself off again for a while.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I can't figure out what's going on, and it's quite aggravating. Have I misconfigured something?

Thanks,

Zach Pincus

Department of Biochemistry and Program in Biomedical Informatics
Stanford University School of Medicine
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