I've just started using Eclipse and I noticed that when I start typing a local variable name it doesn't come up with suggestions like Visual Studio does until I press Ctrl-Space. Is there any way to get it to do this automatically? I find Ctrl-Space an awkward key press.
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A:
- Window -> Preferences
- Java -> Editor -> Content Assist
- Change auto-activation to suit your preferences
You will probably want to set the delay to 0.
Yuval A
2009-12-24 22:41:54
These are the settings I have. I don't think it will trigger auto assist until you type ".".
Brandon
2009-12-24 22:48:43
If you can put multiple triggers you might want to try putting all the letters in that box so it would work sort of like VS
Samuel
2009-12-24 22:52:36
How would you add every single possible letter in the alphabet to it then? ;-)
Claus Jørgensen
2009-12-26 21:53:45
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A:
These bugs may be of interest to you:
A. Allow more character triggers as @Samuel said (fixed in 3.4 onwards):
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=159157
B. Allow content assist everywhere automatically (not fixed):
Scobal
2009-12-25 00:20:13
So a 4½ year old bug that would make Eclipse work like Visual Studio, isn't fixed yet? Any ideas why they postponed a feature who imo. is more important than anything else they done the last 4 years.
Claus Jørgensen
2009-12-26 21:58:34
There maybe another bug open for it that I missed... I think it's a feature eclipse should probably have too.
Scobal
2009-12-27 01:20:13