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user984003

Reputation: 29569

Stop Eclipse from autocompleting

Eclipse has suddenly started doing something weird and has become unusable. I'm using the PyDev editor.

When I type a regular letter, for example, t, and then Enter, Eclipse changes it to a complete word. In the case of t, it becomes "TabError". A becomes "And", b becomes "break" and so on.

It just suddenly started happening as I was typing in the editor. I don't know what combination of keys I must have pressed to start this behavior. I've tried restarting my computer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (2)

Jonah Graham
Jonah Graham

Reputation: 7990

I don't know why the behaviour has changed for you, however what you are describing is behaviour as expected in the PyDev editor, i.e. if I have:

import time
t

and my cursor is just after the t, then I see auto completions pop-up and if I press Enter the selected completion is inserted. Here is a screenshot just after I typed t:

autocomplete

The screenshot in @aleroot's answer documents this with Note: Enter will always apply the completion, further recommending Note: Shift-Enter can be used if you want a new line without applying a completion. These same notes apply to editing Java code in the Java Editors

So what you are seeing is intended behaviour.

However, you may not like such autocompletions, so I recommend tuning them. In particular, you probably want to turn off Request completion on all letter chars and '_'? Making this change will more closely match the default behaviour in the Java editor which by default automatically shows completions only on ..

Upvotes: 1

aleroot
aleroot

Reputation: 72646

To tweak those preferences you have to go to :

Preferences->PyDev->Editor->Code Completion

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Upvotes: 1

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