Bug 330043 - Disabling/Limiting the "look-ahead completion"
Summary: Disabling/Limiting the "look-ahead completion"
Status: NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Alias: None
Product: kdevelop
Classification: Applications
Component: Language Support: CPP (old) (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git master
Platform: openSUSE Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdevelop-bugs-null
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Reported: 2014-01-16 18:50 UTC by Claus Christmann
Modified: 2026-02-10 11:55 UTC (History)
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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.