CLion Aggressive Auto Completion in Comments

Hi! So far I can't reproduce it on my side. Is there any chance that some other program on your machine does this autocompletion? Do you observe this behavior only in CLion?

Hi Anna, thanks for the response.

This seems to still be occurring in CLion 2019.2, with all downloaded plugins disabled.

To try and answer your question... This behaviour is only observed in CLion, and I don't know of any other program on my system which would have this capability. I'm running CLion on Kubuntu 19.04.

I have some more information about the issue: it occurs in string literals, comments, and the start of declarations, and so far I have only found these occurrences:

• "a" -> "auto"
• "b" -> "bool"
• "c" -> "const"
• "d" -> "double"
• "e" -> "enum  {\n    \n};"
• "o" -> "std::optional<>"
• "s" -> "std::string"
• "v" -> "std::vector<>"

Interestingly, it only autocompletes when typing a single letter; completing more of the word (like doing "au" instead of "a") doesn't autocomplete. So there is some specific autocomplete feature for these single letters when typed on their own.

So... is this an intended feature of CLion? If it is, it probably shouldn't be doing it in comments and string literals :)

Regards

Ah, I found the feature. It is of course Editor -> Live Templates. I can't seem to find a report on YouTrack for live templates completing in comments and string literals, so I'll do some further inspection and go post one.

Edit: Issue is posted here

Thanks for investigating and creating the issue!