[NETBEANS-5093] Netbeans 12.1 not applying code assistance properly on C headers

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 12.1
• Labels: c

Environment

Product Version: Apache NetBeans IDE 12.1
Updates: NetBeans IDE is updated to version NetBeans 8.2 Patch 2
Java: 11.0.9.1; OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 11.0.9.1+1-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1.20.04
Runtime: OpenJDK Runtime Environment 11.0.9.1+1-Ubuntu-0ubuntu1.20.04
System: Linux version 5.4.0-56-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Claudi
• Created: 04/Dec/20 07:08
• Updated: 04/Dec/20 07:08

Description

I recently updated Netbeans from 12.0 to 12.1 on my Ubuntu 18.04 platform and I have noticed that code assistance has stopped working on C header files (*.h). Among other issues:

• Selecting a hyphenated name like MY_C_MACRO by double clicking on it doesn't work; it only selects a token from the name ("MY", "C" or "MACRO") instead of the whole word.

• Ctrl-clicking on a name doesn't switch to the definition of that name anymore.

• Auto-tabbing doesn't work anymore (hitting ENTER brings the cursor to the beginning of the next line instead of placing it below the previous line's beginning.

• Typing /** and hitting ENTER doesn't automatically insert the template for documenting the symbol below anymore.