[MonoDevelop] Code completion stopped working

[Mike Krüger]

Hi

I just fixed the default args bug. (Should work in beta 2 - or in 
current master)

Regards
Mike

> Hah! Only a few moments after sending this last email I was toying
> around and discovered the problem. A colleague has become very fond of
> the new default args syntax, and as he populates our code with
> functions having default args, code completion breaks for me. For
> example,
>
> using System;
>
> namespace CodeCompletionError
> {
>      public class AClass
>      {
>          string foo;
>          // Code completion on foo does work here.
>          // foo. ...
>
>          public Baz(bool arg = true)
>          {
>              string foo;
>              // Code completion on foo does not work here.
>              // foo. ...
>          }
>      }
> }
>
>
> As the comments indicate, code completion does not work at the second
> point because MD is upset about the syntax: "bool arg = true". Is
> there some way to separate the detection of a syntax error (even
> though in this case it is not) from the code completion mechanism? I
> suppose those may be deeply linked, but it can be disconcerting to
> have a syntax error many lines above in a file disable code completion
> from that point down. Also, if I upgrade to MD 2.6 will default args
> no longer be marked as errors?
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Matt Calder<mvcalder at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Code completion regularly stops working for me altogether. Then, as
>> mysteriously as it disappeared it reappears. I previously thought it
>> might be due to Gnome themes on Ubuntu, but I think that was
>> coincidence. Does anyone else see this problem? I wonder if some
>> diagnostic plan can be suggested so that I might discover the cause.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael Hutchinson
>> <m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Matt Calder<mvcalder at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> For some reason code completion has stopped working for me in
>>>> monodevelop. This is version 2.4 running under Ubuntu 10.10. I think
>>>> it may have stopped when I changed the desktop theme, but I can't be
>>>> certain. I restarted MD, but no change. Any ideas?
>>> * Check the MD log for errors (~/.config/MonoDevelop/log)
>>> * Try cleaning out the pidb (complete data cache) files from your
>>> project directories
>>> * Try cleaning out the pidb files from ~/.config/MonoDevelop/CodeCompletionData
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Hutchinson
>>> http://mjhutchinson.com
>>>
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