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newfylox
newfylox

Reputation: 21

Using "TAB" instead "ENTER" for auto completion in PYDEV Eclipse

Is there a way to change the auto complete options? I want to auto complete in pydev if I use TAB key instead ENTER key because it's annoying. Everytime I want to jump to a new line, I hit ENTER and it completes something for me instead of jumping a line!

Txs

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1479

Answers (1)

Fabio Zadrozny
Fabio Zadrozny

Reputation: 25362

Unfortunately it's not really possible to use tab instead of enter to auto-complete in PyDev (nor in Eclipse itself).

So, what I do in these cases is use Shift-Enter to go to a new line: note that in this case, you can press Shift+Enter from any place in your line and it'll mimic a 'go to end of line, press enter' (which is a nice thing for me).

Implementation note: the '\t' and '\r,'\n' cases are actually hard-coded in Eclipse at: org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup.verifyKey(VerifyEvent) so, to fix that, you'd need a patch which changed that at Eclipse itself (so, if you feel it's worthwhile, create a bug-request in Eclipse itself to ask for that feature).

Upvotes: 0

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