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It would be really useful if the watch expression editor in the debugger could take advantage of code- completion
Deferred. The editor is used for all debuggers, and thus does not have a "content assist" context.
Verified closed in 3.0 final on Mac OS X.
Oops. Updated wrong bug.
Returned to 'resolve later'
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This enhancement request has been open since 2004. Are there any plans to do anything about it? It borders on being classified as a bug. It is quite frustrating to have to edit expressions in the Display view and then copy them to the expressions view, and feels inconsistent with the general eclipse experience. I understand that the view is used for debugging in non-java contexts, however there must be a creative solution for that. At worst, create a new java-expressions view with code completion.
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There are plenty of duplicated bugs for this, but this is still in a deprecated status. It's quite absurd that Eclipse doesn't give code completion in the "edit watch expression" dialog... Please reopen this enhancement request and take it into consideration! Mauro.
I agree, this is actually one of the reasons, I will move away from using Eclipse.
Could the JDT team at least REOPEN this enhancement request???
Later used to mean "future consideration". Open means the same thing, unless it gets assigned a milestone...
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This would be useful. .Net and Visual Studio has this :-)
Pretty necessary. Eclipse will not be usable for debugging until this is resolved.
This auto complete bug is absurd, considering it was open in 2004. The eclipse debugger, sad to say, is just light years of being at the level of the netbeans debugger. I find myself, time and time again, using the Java Editor to write the expressions with a working autocomplete working to copy paste them to the eclipse "Expressions" view because of this bug. It would be nice to see this issue gone after .... 12 years. 12 years!!!!!!!
Could you use the display tab, which has autocomplete, to create the code you want to add to the watch expression?
Created attachment 262166 [details] Autocomplete in expressions
This isn't convenient to open additional tab. Actually autocomplete is already implemented in the bottom area of expressions window (see "autocompele in expressions"). Is it difficult to add this autocomplete to field and "Add watch expression" dialog?
Actually, that seems like an unintended side effect since it seems to only work as an editor with something that isn't valid and gives you the <error(s) during the evaluation> message. If you have something that is valid, the toString for it displays on the bottom part and you can't type and autocomplete
No. If I have something that is valid, the toString for it displays on the bottom part. That's true. But I can type and autocomplete
Any progress here? This sure would be a good feature to have.
No progress yet!!
There is no rush, It has only been 13 years now...
Late 2018 and still no progress. This is so sad. Eclipse can't compete with modern IDEs and I'm still using this. Ridiculous.
2021 says hi. Is there an extension that can support this? In intellij you can highlight any expression, hover over it and see result of it on tooltip (without a popup). In eclipse I can't do that, also you can't even get autocorrect if you are ok to write it again.
