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Created attachment 287667 [details] Sys with control and alt Eclipse is a popular ide, but the intuitiveness for those starting out makes the learning curve in the language and in creating robust projects difficult. I say this because commands that were supposed to work in all versions of eclipse do not work depending on the operating system or certain particularities of the client machine. If during a class, a teacher asks to download a certain version of the eclipse and everyone downloads it and only in two or three does the sysout command work, we can characterize this as an error that was perfectly ignored. The fact is that this is a known event and many ask for help in stack overflow and many know-it-alls give different answers and often the sequence of links does not lead anywhere. In the ide not even the interface exists! If you look for the sysout command it should show something in the IDE, but there's nothing! And see that another computer with the same version, the same works. I've already installed eclipse on two different windows machines (new installation - new pc) and none of them worked; already the work (new pc too) installed and the sysout ran. Intellij, on the other hand, sout - the same abbreviation for System.out.println, works perfectly - without any complaints. And there is how to enable and disable it. I suggest creating an IDE keyboard shortcut control interface and default system shortcuts. It can be a table with a checkbox. They could invest more in testing in a real environment rather than a controlled environment. Think of the students and those who are migrating from another ide like Intellij and NetBeans, which are less of a headache because of technological constraints.
Lots of text, but your problem seems to be that code completion is not working. The correct shortcut for that is CTRL+SPACE. CTRL+ALT by itself is not a shortcut for any action in the IDE, it should always be followed by some other key. Moreover, CTRL+ALT is a notorious difficult shortcut as on Windows it is the same as ALTGR. Could you please elaborate on your problem, what are the exact steps? Such that it can be reproduced and put to the right product and component. Also note that Eclipse IDE is a free open source product. If you need support for that, think about paying someone for support or take the burden on yourself. The project is always open for improvements made by you. It is the responsibility of a teacher to ensure that the instructions work on any platform.
