No dot completion for identifiers in most cases
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Description
In most cases, dot autocompletion for identifiers outside of terms does not work (i.e. completion after foo.).
Steps to Reproduce
- Type
#print Bool.
Expected behavior: At this point, possible completions like Bool.and should be shown.
Actual behavior: Autocompletion interrupts, leaving only a parser error.
Versions
Lean 4.21.0-nightly-2025-05-15
Impact
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Research direction
Reproduce the problem with #print Bool. and verify that completions such as Bool.and are absent while a parser error remains. Trace the identifier completion path for code outside terms, then confirm that dot completion works in this example and does not interrupt with a parser error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100