[Lazarus] autocomplete broken?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 21:09:14 +0200
Bernd <prof7bit at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is there currently some unfinished work going on with the autocomplete
> / dropdown in the IDE? Its behaving very strange and buggy in recent
> versions from trunk. I could not find any relevant open bug reports
> (maybe because of the wrong search terms).

No.

Well, the code hints are unfinished, but I doubt you have enabled
them.

 
> Sometimes after having typed a few characters if I press backspace the
> list is suddenly empty and won't be populated anymore. Also sometimes
> it won't complete when I press enter on the selected word, it will
> just close the list and  nothing else happens. 

"Sometimes" is very vague.


> And very occasionally I
> have seen the list suddenly populated with what looks like error
> messages (the same error repeated for every list item but truncated at
> the end so I cant completely read them, I will try to make a
> screenshot when it happens again)

This means a unit has changed that was used to populate the list.

 
> This strange behavior seems to be new, I cannot remember that it
> behaved that way a few months ago (but I don't know the exact revision
> number, it would take a lot of time for me to find out).

Without more details it would take everyone else even more
time.

Mattias