[Lazarus] autocomplete broken?

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Mattias Gaertner schrieb:

>> 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.

It is not reproducible, but it also happens to me.

>> 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.

The message begins with "PaintCompletionItem: BUG in Codetools...".

The listbox contents change while typing, no units changed or anything else.


>> 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.

Please don't waste *our* time with untested modifications :-]

DoDi