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Reputation: 476

Eclipse's 'syso' Shortcut is Not Working?

I have been having this problem for a while and I have been constantly searching for an answer everywhere and finally chose to just ask it here. All the other posts I have seen don't fix my problem and I have tried doing the following:

When I type syso and press Ctrl + Space, instead of instantly giving me the insertion or shortcut I want, it just opens the 'Intelligent Proposals' menu and I have to press Ctrl + Space again in order to get to the 'Template Proposals' menu where I can actually double click "'syso' - print to standard out" and then it gives me the full System.out.println. It really does mess with flow and is very annoying.

Any fixes to my problem? Thanks,

Upvotes: 3

Views: 30187

Answers (13)

Urvi Deshpande
Urvi Deshpande

Reputation: 11

Go to Windows>Preferences>Editor>Content Assist>Advanced and select the checkboxes for 1.Java proposals, 2.SWT Template proposals and 3.Template proposals. Now your shortcut for syso and ctrl+space will work. This worked for me, I hope it helps you too.

Upvotes: 0

Gyro Gearloose
Gyro Gearloose

Reputation: 1154

I had the same symptom with eclipse 2021-06.

I discovered that the template named "syso" was gone.

Recreating "syso" worked.

Upvotes: 1

reda benlahsen
reda benlahsen

Reputation: 29

In Eclipse you should use sysout then ctrl + space. in windows and command + space in mac.

Upvotes: 0

BJ5
BJ5

Reputation: 512

Can you check this out

  1. Go to Windows->Preferences-Java->Editor->Content Assist->Advanced
  2. Select Template proposals and click Ok

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Upvotes: 1

Varsheeth T V
Varsheeth T V

Reputation: 1

Only for those who are using eclipse editor;

Check you are using syso -> ctrl+space in a valid coding area. I mean, you can't have a SOP statement inside class, it can be inside a function only, i.e. either inside main() or any user defined methods.

Upvotes: -1

Dupree
Dupree

Reputation: 1

What worked for me was capitalizing the S in Sysout. Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

Shuyu
Shuyu

Reputation: 1

I have both Chinese and English language input. Ctr + space could also mean switch language input. So make sure you are under English input

Upvotes: -1

Vaibhav Tanavde
Vaibhav Tanavde

Reputation: 1

  • Step 1: Type sysout
  • Step 2: Click Ctrl + space
  • Step 3: Double click on sysout-print to standard out option.

Upvotes: -2

Abhineet Kumar
Abhineet Kumar

Reputation: 306

I was facing the same problem and figured it out after playing around with some settings. So, here's what you should do:

  1. Go to Windows->Preferences-Java->Editor->Content Assist->Advanced.
  2. Check on the box saying- Java Proposals.
  3. Uncheck the box saying- Java Proposals (Code Recommenders).

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 10

Olga H
Olga H

Reputation: 1

Go to Windows-Preferences-Java-Editor-Templates

  1. Here you can check if you have "syso" already and if so just check the box.
  2. If you do not have check box with "syso"-create new "New.." , type name: syso, give your description if you want to, and enter the Pattern: System.out.println(); , press OK
  3. Press "Apply" , then "OK"
  4. Check if it works!

Also, if it still does not work for you, go to Windows-Preferences-Java-Editor-Content Assist -Favorites

Here, press "New Type" -enter: System.out.println(); , press OK , press Apply.

I hope it helped! :)

Upvotes: 0

sattik
sattik

Reputation: 81

I had exactly the same problem in Eclipse with the 'Template Proposals' menu popping up instead of completing the sysout shortcut. In my case, a plug-in installed recently was to blame. I unchecked all the templates for the plug-in in Preferences/(plug-in)/Templates - and this did the trick for me. Now the selection menu doesn't pop up any more, and syso + CTRL-SPACE works again as it should.

Upvotes: 2

PbxMan
PbxMan

Reputation: 7623

In my case it didn't work because ctrl+space was being used by another program Ubuntu(I-Bus) in my case ref. here Try changing ctrl-space by another key combination in general->keys to find out if this is causing the problem and try sysout instead.

Upvotes: 0

Chandrayya G K
Chandrayya G K

Reputation: 8849

Check this. Select any string then press Ctrl + Space eclipse detects the context.

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Upvotes: 1

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