April 25, 2005
Instant autocomplete in Eclipse
Oh boy. For three long years I believed that autocomplete in Eclipse simply was so damned slow. Three years. My goodness.
Note to past self: Go to Window / Preferences / Java / Code Assist / Auto-Activation and decrease Auto activation delay from 500 to zero. Yes, by default Eclipse waits for half a second before it even considers to help you out.
Will instant autocompletion cause bad karma with huge projects or something? There has to be a good reason for this insane default, and I don't care about it at all. I'm too busy writing down object names, hitting the dot and giggling like a child.
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Just add hippie completion to it, and your life will be forever changed ;-)
http://www.beust.com/weblog/archives/000258.html
Posted by Philippe Ombredanne (#)
Thanks for the tip. I too have always believed its slow. I can't wait 'til tomorrow so I can do some giggling.
Posted by Michael Harmer (#)
Philippe: Hippie completion rocks, although the default key mapping makes it rather unreachable on German keyboards. Thank you for the pointer!
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The reason for the delay is that on slower computers, the instant autocomplete makes eclipse all but unusable.
At least, that's how it is on mine :)
/Jonas
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