Code completion in KDEStudio

[Richard Dale]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> Ivan Hawkes wrote:
> > 
> > How can the person who wrote that call themselves a programmer? What's wrong
> > with using a Dictionary object to store a parse of the file contents? You
> > would have to update it with every edit, but at least you're not firing off a
> > compiler every time ;-)
> But it works. Anyway, they say so. I haven't seen it working at all, I
> don't know no version which has a working codecompletion. That's why I
> cannot build it in KDevelop-2.0, although I would like.
I think if the 'hack' solution works, and the end user doesn't notice any
performance problems, then it's quite clever. 

The KDevelop class parser only works in 'batch' mode - it parses a whole file
at a time, and doesn't parse interactively as the user types (although the
kwrite highlight code does that). Also it only parses method declarations and
definitions, not the body a the methods - it just skips over them. So it hasn't
any symbol table to get plausible candidate methods complete a 'foobar->' sort
of C++ statement.

I read that the 'Legendary Lost KStudio Completion Code' used ctags. Is there a
way we use ctags to get the candidate methods and load them into a
KCompletionObject (which I assume from the name is the right widget to use)?

-- Richard

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