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"Another area where [Eclipse] is slow is in code completion. I have to wait so long for the little box to pop-up on its own that I usually either skip it or press ctrl-space to force it to open." [Excerpted from http://www.netbeans.org/switch/realstories.html] Suggest changing the default delay to 100 (ms).
this is a preference
Sorry. You asked to change the default. Do you think this makes the difference or is it rather a problem that people don't know about the preference?
Yes, the defaults do make a difference. Pascal and Mike M were having a discussion about better out of the box settings, and Mike asked for some more examples. This is one that I always adjust myself and recommend others do too. Default memory size is another one (vm option) but I believe there's already an entry for that. Changed title to say 'default'.
>I always adjust myself and recommend others do too. Ed, what value do you use?
100ms (1/10 second)
Playing devil's advocate here... Is there a disadvantage to having a shorter delay? Will a short delay get in the way of typing? Will constantly bringing up the code completion window have a performance impact wrt editor responsiveness? Will it be more noticable on slower machines or the Mac?
I've set it to 200ms because 100ms is a bit too small for cases where you want to type without code assist coming up. Fixed in HEAD. Available in builds >= I20050509-1200.
That's a good compromise and much better than 500ms, thanks.
