[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT Code Assist

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> 1) I noticed that when I created a new PHP Page (file>new>PHP file)the 
> code page that was created lacked the closing ?> markup.  Is that normal?

Yep, not closing a file with ?> is actually recommended.

> 2) Code assist only works when I press CTL-space. I followed the help 
> instructions, and verified that window>preferences>PHP>editor>Code 
> Assist had the Enable auto activation box was checked.  Actually, I 
> still had Ganymede files installed, so I fired it up, and it has the 
> same behavior, although it did add the closing ?> that I mentioned in #!.
You are right that autocompletion is a bit Spartan.
In comparison to Visual Studio you need to hit the keyboard very often 
to trigger autocompletion. Eclipse/pdt does litte to follow you with 
advise.

You can see in window>preferences>PHP>editor>Code Assist that there are 
autocompletion trigger characters. Only when you enter these characters, 
autocompletion pops up. Code assist will also be there if you type "new "


Code assist is thus very limited. To improve this situation I would 
suggest heading over to this bug report and add your vote: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=204768