# Autocomplete of \\lambda \\delta don't work, known issue?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586>\
**Category:** VS Code\
**Created:** [February 13, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586 "2020-02-13T16:20:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![affans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/affans/32/11911_2.png) [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586/1 "2020-02-13T16:20:42Z")

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VS Code (latest update) with extension version 0.13.1, Julia version 1.3

The autocomplete to input latex characters don’t work. Is this a known issue and is there a workaround? Typing `\lambda<tab>` just enters a space (dosn’t even enter the 4 spaces my is supposed to enter).

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**Author:** ![affans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/affans/32/11911_2.png) [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586/2 "2020-02-13T16:26:23Z")

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Actually I am not even sure the language server is working. The status bar looks file (and tells me what env I am in, I can launch the repl, and so on) but right-clicking on function definitions and calls don’t give me options to “go to definition” or “peek”.

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**Author:** ![affans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/affans/32/11911_2.png) [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586/3 "2020-02-13T16:31:09Z")

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Ah, according to this, it seems like it’s doing the indexing again. I don’t know why it’s doing it again, I’ve been using it for a while.

I did notice that whenever I do `using <pkg>` it will usually pre-compile them now. I don’t know what happened to my already precompiled files.

Is there a way to check whether the language server is indexing?

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**Author:** ![affans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/affans/32/11911_2.png) [@affans](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/affans)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586/4 "2020-02-13T16:38:13Z")

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I’ve updated to 0.14.1 and now I have a status saying “idnexing files”. hopefully it dosn’t take long.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/autocomplete-of-lambda-delta-dont-work-known-issue/34586/5 "2020-02-13T17:00:08Z")

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In 0.14.x the LS should start working _before_ the indexing is finished, so things like latex completion should work already while the indexing is happening in the background.