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Summary: The Java code completion implementation has something called "completion selectors" (Tools > Options > Editor > Code Completion > Language: Java). It would be great if PHP code completion had the same functionality. Visual Studio is another IDE that has this functionality built in, I think across all its languages. Overview: The completion popup for PHP requires you to press enter in order to select the top suggestion. However, it would be nice to explicitly set a list of characters in your settings that would automatically select the top suggestion. These characters would be the kind that frequently end a variable name, reserved word, function name, etc. The Java code completion options has this list of characters: .,;:([+-= So in PHP there could be something similar. That way, if I need to access elements in an array called $my_number_list, I could type '$my_nu' to eventually bring its suggestion to the top, then immediately type '[' without having to press enter to select it first (because the '[' character already selected it for me. So now I fully have '$my_number_list[' in the editor). Hopefully this isn't a difficult feature to add to NetBeans.