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A significant number of bug reports and enhancement requests relate to code completion, an aspect of the editor which is inherently complex and bug-prone, not to mention subjective. Surely one of the easiest ways to ameliorate the impact of problems in code completion would be to allow users to turn it on and off globally. I suggest you add the following option at the top of the code completion tab: Have Netbeans Attempt Code Completion: - Never Ever - Only With An Explicit Command (eg CTRL+SPACE) - Whenever It Can
This is mostly implemented, you can disable automatic opening code completion in Options -> Editor -> Code completion -> Auto popup Completion Window. (1 and 2) The 'Whenever It Can' is implemented only for several languages - for java and javascript as far as I known - see the language specific options
(In reply to Jiri Prox from comment #1) > This is mostly implemented, you can disable automatic opening code > completion in Options -> Editor -> Code completion -> Auto popup Completion > Window. (1 and 2) To clarify: This suggestion is really about giving the user a single point of control over all code completion, (not just the popup window, but the injection of braces, quotation marks and closing tags as well). I had thought that the "Never Ever" and "Whenever It Can" cases might be pretty trivial to code; I am heartened that you seem to think the same applies to "Only With An Explicit Command". > The 'Whenever It Can' is implemented only for several languages - for java > and javascript as far as I known - see the language specific options I intended the "Have Netbeans Attempt Code Completion -> Whenever It Can" option to mean doing what I think Netbeans does now, to always try to use code completion in accordance with whatever finer-grained options have been selected.