java and tag completion

[Nic Ferrier]

Can anyone tell me if tag completion works properly for Java source
files?

I've built a tags table in the correct way and I can find tags in the
source tree (which is useful) but what I really want is 'proper'
completion, ie: I type an instance variable "." half a method name and
Emacs works out what method I am using.

For example, in the following code:

  com.nic.Xyz x = new com.nic.Xyz("hello");
  x.foo

If I do tag completion now I would expect Emacs to complete the
code thusly:

  x.fooBar(

It doesn't. It does work sometimes...

Is it expected to work? Or is Java a bit too odd to do traditional tag
completion?


(I am sketching out an alternative using a similar system to tags).

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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk