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 How do I permanently disable smart insert, for all file types, forever? [message #655368] |
Sun, 20 February 2011 01:39  |
 Dan Nye
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I've been struggling for the past 6 hours to find a way to permanently disable the ironically-named "smart insert" feature of Eclipse. I've searched the help files, the internet, and turned off pretty much every autocomplete, content assist, and typing option going for all file types, and even blanked all comment code templates for all languages... and yet Eclipse still persists in second guessing what I know I want to do, visually raping me with extra asterisks whenever I type /* and press Enter.
I guess I should count myself lucky it's only in my JS and PHP editors, and that it doesn't do it in my CSS editor as well.
I know I can turn it off on the menu or using the shortcut key, but this seems to be a per-file setting - when I open another file (even of the same type), the bloody thing has turned itself back on - which makes my blood boil. If I turn a setting off, I expect it to stay off, not sneak itself back on at every possible opportunity!
I don't want to ditch Eclipse in favour of another IDE as I've used it for years (and I detest the SVN integration in IntelliJ), but if I can't find a way to disable what must be the most annoying feature ever invented, I might go postal!
I would be more grateful than you will ever know if someone could tell me how I can disable smart insert permanently, no ifs, no buts - always. If it helps, I'm using Eclipse 3.6.1.
Thanks,
Dan
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| Re: How do I permanently disable smart insert, for all file types, forever? [message #660761 is a reply to message #660728] |
Mon, 21 March 2011 13:55  |
Dan Nye
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I understand that I could turn it off every time I open a file, but can you imagine how tedious that becomes after the first one, two, three, ... ten, twenty, ... fifty sixty, ... files? It really does slow me down - you have no idea just how annoying this "smart" feature is to me.
I'm sure the naming of it is some sort of sick joke, as something that causes me to waste time undoing what it does (something that I don't want in the first place) can hardly be considered very "smart". Perhaps it's a big boon to people who edit Java and JSP files, who knows... but for me with my JS and PHP files, it's a very heavy millstone around a very sore neck.
I've pretty much had it up to "here" with the feature (and with with jokes that rely on visual imagery  ) so I'm going to give NetBeans a try. If it does all I need then my long relationship with Eclipse will be, sadly, coming to a very abrupt end over this one issue.
I'm by no means the only person to vehemently dislike this behaviour as I've found two bugs relating to it, 250594: Smart Insert Mode always on by default raised in 2008, and 319532: Allow to disable smart auto-indent on return, raised last year.
From the seemingly childish taunts that Daniel Megert seems to derive pleasure from dishing out to the bug reporters who have to put up with this annoyance, only to dash their hopes with a "WONTFIX" status, I get the impression that this won't be fixed any time soon. I'm not making this personal - but you have to agree that the two bugs I refer to don't exactly give much hope to people who suffer from this day in, day out.
Perhaps, Daniel, if you're reading this, you can answer my question: why are you seemingly so against empowering the user to work faster if they so wish to?
Dan
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| Re: How do I permanently disable smart insert, for all file types, forever? [message #781890 is a reply to message #655368] |
Sun, 22 January 2012 16:35 |
Ronny Kavli
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Dan,
You're far from alone detesting the "Smart-Insert"-mode. Sadly I think this is a politically infected problem more than a technical. There have been requests for a enable/disable earlier, as listed in bug report 250594. Sadly there are some really bone-headed people within the Eclipse-sphere that don't want that to happen, so screaming about it seems to be a waste of breath.
Anyhow, "Smart" Insert is broken by design. Just think of it: If an algorithm could figure out where my braces, brackets and parenthesis should be located, then there would be no need for them in the first place. Typing them by hand is extremely inexpensive compared to deleting them. Marking imbalances is, on the other hand, very valuable.
-- K
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| Re: How do I permanently disable smart insert, for all file types, forever? [message #1828202 is a reply to message #781890] |
Wed, 03 June 2020 19:54 |
Pies Julius
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Hi Guys,
I know it's an old thread but as it pops up as first in google if searched for this I wanted to let you know what I did and how I made this to work. Unfortunately as agreed with others, it's out of understanding why they can't do this so diggd around a bit in the source today and was able to make this happen as follows:
1. Open Eclipse and create a new java project (call it Test or org.eclipse.ui or whatever you want)
2. Create the following directories/file within this project:
src/org/eclipse/ui/texteditor/AbstractTextEditor.java
3. Copy the content from the eclipse release you are using to this file, for e.g. this is version 4.15
https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/platform/eclipse.platform.text/+/S4_15_0_RC2/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor/src/org/eclipse/ui/texteditor/AbstractTextEditor.java
4. Edit above code as follows:
4.1 Commenting out everything within "setInsertMode(InsertMode newMode) { }" function
4.2 Change "private InsertMode fInsertMode= SMART_INSERT;" to "private InsertMode fInsertMode= INSERT;"
5. Right click your project, select Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries -> Add External JARs and select all jars files from your eclipse installation plugins/ directory (just use shift to select all of them at once)
6. Select "Run -> Run As -> Java Application"
7. Rename "plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor_3.14.100.v20200212-1049.jar" in your eclipse installation directory (you version may change depending on release) to org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor_3.14.100.v20200212-1049.jar.zip
8. Replace the "org/eclipse/ui/texteditor/AbstractTextEditor.class" file within this zip file with the one from your own build located at "bin/org/eclipse/ui/texteditor/AbstractTextEditor.class"
9. Rename "org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor_3.14.100.v20200212-1049.jar.zip" back to it's original name for e.g. "org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor_3.14.100.v20200212-1049.jar"
10. Restart eclipse and now independent of your source editor kind (java, c, php, css, javascript) they all should be in normal insert mode.
IMPORTANT: this will prevent you from switching to Smart Insert as it simply disables that possibility because for some reason for e.g. PHP and CSS editors directly switch to Smart Insert mode even if default is not smart insert mode so had to totally disable the possibility to switch to this nonsens mode.
TO Eclipse Developers: You do have a pretty powerful IDE, I use it since well around 2003 or so and pretty happy with it but this nonsence smart insert mode makes one work more than less, and don't ask my what bothers me with it or what it should do differently, simply allow it to be disabled and there you go, a dam checkbox in the settings would be enough and everyone would be happy but for some reason you keep forcing it because you want to be smarter or for whatever reason. Don't tell me what to disable or what not as I do have everything disabled that could be disabled re this but nothing helps so just add a simple checkbox that can disable this and everyone would be happy with it.
I know it's a free software and we shouldn't complain, so I'm not complaining, even so trying to come up with a solution to the best of my knowledge and would even consider paying for this feature so that you don't do it for free just please please add this option, it's a such a simply change and would help so many people who do not consider one telling them why is better this way than that way.
Really hope this will be somehow helpful one way or another.
Thanks for this IDE which is a must in my opinion for different and multiple projects so really thankful for it and for all you hard work you put in it, let me know if it would be helpful to consider a patch that would add this feature to the core just not sure if you accept third party patches from a noname like me.
Regards,
Julius
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