Bug 534648 - [content assist] Turn off space bar autocomplete
Summary: [content assist] Turn off space bar autocomplete
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 348857
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7.3   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: JDT-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2018-05-14 09:58 EDT by Erik Hansson CLA
Modified: 2018-10-05 07:32 EDT (History)
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Description Erik Hansson CLA 2018-05-14 09:58:35 EDT 
In order for Eclipse to be a viable alternative to other modern Java IDEs (IntelliJ), it would be nice to have intellisense without delay, and regardless of what character you type. While that is possible to achieve through the available settings in Eclipse, it is ruined by the fact that Eclipse autocompletes on spacebar. It should be possible to choose which keys should trigger autocompletion. In addition, what you actually type should always take precedence over any suggestions from the content assist. Plug-ins have been made to afford this functionality, but they stop working whenever some overhaul of Eclipse comes along.

These features have been requested for years and years, and it is time to do something about it. To me personally, it would be enough of a deal-breaker not to use Eclipse at all, if I wasn't forced to.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2018-07-22 04:07:08 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 101420 ***
Comment 2 Mickael Istria CLA 2018-10-05 07:32:24 EDT 
This is a dup of bug 348857, which is JDT-specific. JDT adds space as a trigger char for most CompletionProposals.
An API was recently provided to support it, and a patch is submitted to JDT, hopefully it will be in 4.10.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348857 ***