Tab completion not working in REPL

[sloede]

Using your fork https://github.com/krrutkow/P4est.jl/tree/update-to-cbinding-v1 I tried to use P4est.jl on the REPL. Even though I faintly recall it used to work at some point in the past, tab-completion in the REPL is not working anymore, at least for me:

julia> using P4est

julia> conn_ptr = p4est_connectivity_new_periodic()
CBinding.Cptr{var"c\"struct p4est_connectivity\""}(0x000000000441d5e0)

julia> propertynames(conn_ptr)
(:num_vertices, :num_trees, :num_corners, :vertices, :tree_to_vertex, :tree_attr_bytes, :tree_to_attr, :tree_to_tree, :tree_to_face, :tree_to_corner, :ctt_offset, :corner_to_tree, :corner_to_corner)

Thus although propertynames seems to return the correct list of properties, when I enter conn_ptr. and hit Tab, it just gives me a list of hundreds of symbols. Is this a known issue?

[krrutkow]

This worked in pre-v1 code because Caccessor was a struct type wrapping a pointer. This no longer works due to JuliaLang/julia#41652 and the fact that pointers (non-structs) are used directly now. There is at least one slightly risky workaround that fixes this anyways.

[sloede]

OK, thanks for letting me know. I'll keep tabs on JuliaLang/julia#41652 to see what happens.

[krrutkow]

A fix for JuliaLang/julia#41652 has been merged into Julia.