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That alleviates the pain. The problem now would be that this doens't enable ycmd when I open a new file, right? Why does ycmd interfere with startup - I would...

Can I already make it start parsing on buffer enter?

Yep, I hoped for something like that.

Wow, thanks! Will take me a bit to get back - I'll need to get it into the hands of my users first :)

I also think that ycmd sometimes provides different error results so we can give more concrete errors back to the user... We could also store the last error message and...

Works in general now, but doesn't seem to list all possible completions after / #include "dir1/a (works, shows all completions starting with "a" in "dir1") #include "dir1/ (doesn't work, not...

@d0k apropos, can we enable clang-include-fixer for YCM nowadays without too much hassle?

It looks like the referenced fix was rolled back? Can we perhaps implement a shutdown command in ycmd that can be sent via the rpc interface?

So, I still have users reporting huge /tmp residues. I'm wondering whether we hit the timeout after interrupt-process...

Note that in our case the problem is not log files - we have a ycm_extra_config for our site that copies the right version of libclang into YCM's /tmp directory.