Bug 330043

Summary:	Disabling/Limiting the "look-ahead completion"
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Claus Christmann <hcc>
Component:	Language Support: CPP (old)	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aristsakas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Claus Christmann 2014-01-16 18:50:14 UTC

Albeit being tremendously helpful in the majority of situations, the look-ahead completion sometimes can tike a while to gather all the data to show in the drop-down menu, leading to a "frozen" interface.
For me, for example, this happens when working with Boost libraries, particularly in the boost::geometry namespace.

What I wish for:
It would be great if there were a blacklist/whitelist for the look-ahead auto completion.
This could be something like :

Blacklist:
boost::geometry

Whitelist:
boost::geometry::[method_1_I_use_all_the_time]
boost::geometry::[method_2_I_use_all_the_time]

The look-ahead could then skip the parsing of boost::geometry:: and "simply" just show the corresponding entries from the whitelist... (assuming that the list of entries there is much shorter than the completely blacklisted namespace).

Thanks for considering this.





Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 aristsakas 2026-02-10 11:55:15 UTC

Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with KDevelop 25.12.2.