My understanding of CodeAid and DotComplete is that both use reflection to generate their completions. The same is also true of Visual Studio, which uses .NET reflection. In order for there to be a successful jEdit plugin for completion in C#, one would either have to create some JNI that could do C# reflection or build a database of the .NET libraries.

The latter would be limited in that it would not work for third party libraries and would have to be updated every time there are changes to the framework. Right now, there are three completely different versions - 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 (WinFX).

The former would be the simplest, but would only work on the .NET framework the reflection code was compiled in. However, this would really provide CLR reflection - usable not just for C#, but all .NET languages (not that I care that much for VB ).

I have a need for this also. Sometimes, I open up Visual Studio (*yuck*) just so I can have this feature. Maybe someday I'll come back to this and have time to code up something. (But I'm secretly hoping someone else beats me to it!)

-- UniDyne

unidyne [AT] gmail

I would work on an Icon version if I can mod it
without a total rewrite.

The best way would be a sidekick plugin. for ~$60 someone should give it a try.

I would also appreciate very much a code completion feature for c-languages (especially c#). If someone is already working on this feature or planning to do this soon i would like to cooperate and help in the development process.

Also, in addition to david's 50$, i would spend 10€ for the first one who provides a reasonable code completion feature for c#

Greetings from Germany,

Christian