> AFAICT when you type `\macr` the current code searches backwards to find the > prefix to lookup in the symbols. What adding the backslash to wordchars does > is to include the backslash as part of the symbol prefix, so it is never > found in the symbols since they are stored without the backslash​.
But the problem of autocompleting words not preceded by `\` is unaffected. And since a LaTeX document normally has more text than macros, this can be quite annoying. > I havn't looked at the geanylatex plugin, but I don't think it does anything > for autocomplete.​ Well, it does have something for autocomplete [here](https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/blob/master/geanylatex/src/geanylatex.c#L515), but it seems to be only for things like automatically inserting braces. --- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1000#issuecomment-211237976
