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In order to make the Content Assist appear all the time (as per this stackoverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19449175), I changed the "Auto activation triggers" for Content Assist to ".abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" Now, it works as I wanted. The only problem is that if I press space while there is a content-assist suggestion, the suggestion is inserted, even though I wanted to insert a space, not the code suggestion. I think that for this reason, there should be an setting to make it so that only the enter key inserts the code suggestion.
This is also requested in the following Stackoverflow posts: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51922043/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12834950/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18586771 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20776576
I found some more stackoverflow posts. Quite a few people have also had this issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17605855 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6698722 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14297735 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7759855
I just found bug 348857. From reading through it, I got the impression that a lot of people wanted an option to only insert suggestions on 'enter', and it seemed like some people were interested in fixing it, but it was never solved. Autocomplete is a feature you want to work intuitively and flawlessly in any modern IDE. This is the case in IntelliJ IDEA and so it's currently a very convincing reason to switch...
Explaining why I marked this as "enhancement" request: there is no bug here, no specification that is violated by the implementation, simply the wish that an additional option be added enabling an alternative behavior. If you want to raise visibility you may vote for this issue. See also https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1094977/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 348857 ***
