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disable content assist auto cycling [message #264227] Sat, 13 September 2008 17:22 Go to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
I have couple of simple questions (I hope)
1. When scrolling content assist variants (with Up/Down keys), if you
reach bottom of the list and press down one more time, you jump to the top
automatically. The same in reverse direction. How can I switch this off?
If the option is the last - stay on it, no matter how may times I press
Down. The same with first item and pressing Up.
Also I couldn't find a way to select the first and the last variants of
content assist, all combinations Home/Page Up+Alt/Ctrl/Shift do something
else.
This is very irritating. when searching for appropriate item in a big
list, you have to explicitly note whether the list ended, or find yourself
cycling the same list for 2 or 3 times. To workaround this feature you
have to remember and type couple of characters to dramatically shorten the
list, then press Down several times.
Also I noticed that when using PgUp/PgDn to scroll content assist
variants, it stays at the bottom, doesn't jump to the top.

2. When content assist variant suits me, the only choice I have is to
press Enter so it goes into my code. Can I configure so selected content
assist variant goes into my code on any character I type (not requiring to
press enter explicitly), in most cases it would be "." (after I found
appropriate class or object), "(" (... method name), or " " (... variable
name)
This is uncomfortable because I have to press "Enter" instead of
continuing to type code.

I can fairly say I'm a former .net developer, so I'm a bit addicted to
their keyschemes
Re: disable content assist auto cycling [message #264272 is a reply to message #264227] Sun, 14 September 2008 10:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Sergei Karimov wrote:
> I have couple of simple questions (I hope)
> 1. When scrolling content assist variants (with Up/Down keys), if you
> reach bottom of the list and press down one more time, you jump to the
> top automatically. The same in reverse direction. How can I switch
> this off?
You can't.
> If the option is the last - stay on it, no matter how may times I
> press Down. The same with first item and pressing Up. Also I couldn't
> find a way to select the first and the last variants of content
> assist, all combinations Home/Page Up+Alt/Ctrl/Shift do something else.
Home and End work for me.
> This is very irritating. when searching for appropriate item in a big
> list, you have to explicitly note whether the list ended, or find
> yourself cycling the same list for 2 or 3 times. To workaround this
> feature you have to remember and type couple of characters to
> dramatically shorten the list, then press Down several times. Also I
> noticed that when using PgUp/PgDn to scroll content assist variants,
> it stays at the bottom, doesn't jump to the top.
>
> 2. When content assist variant suits me, the only choice I have is to
> press Enter so it goes into my code. Can I configure so selected
> content assist variant goes into my code on any character I type (not
> requiring to press enter explicitly), in most cases it would be "."
> (after I found appropriate class or object), "(" (... method name), or
> " " (... variable name)
> This is uncomfortable because I have to press "Enter" instead of
> continuing to type code.
You can accept a proposal with '.' and it then also opens content
assist for you again after the '.'.

Dani
>
> I can fairly say I'm a former .net developer, so I'm a bit addicted to
> their keyschemes
>
Re: disable content assist auto cycling [message #264312 is a reply to message #264227] Mon, 15 September 2008 10:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: nowhere.a.com

Sergei Karimov wrote :
> if you reach bottom of the list and press down one more time, you jump to
> the top automatically. The same in reverse direction.

Actually all lists seem to do the same. For instance a Search will also
restart the found hits.

This is annoying in that half the time I am doing this without looking
at the scroll bar, and I miss when the elevator jumps to the top.

As another poster pointed out it cannot be altered. There must be an
open bug for it somewhere. Maybe some bug guru can find it? I always
seem to miss to open bugs, so I open another one, which is then marked
as a dup.

--
Wojtek :-)
Re: disable content assist auto cycling [message #264315 is a reply to message #264312] Mon, 15 September 2008 10:19 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: 4cs6fcg02.sneakemail.com

Wojtek schreef:
> Sergei Karimov wrote :
>> if you reach bottom of the list and press down one more time, you
>> jump to the top automatically. The same in reverse direction.
>
> Actually all lists seem to do the same. For instance a Search will also
> restart the found hits.
>
> This is annoying in that half the time I am doing this without looking
> at the scroll bar, and I miss when the elevator jumps to the top.
>
> As another poster pointed out it cannot be altered. There must be an
> open bug for it somewhere. Maybe some bug guru can find it? I always
> seem to miss to open bugs, so I open another one, which is then marked
> as a dup.

A good thing to do would be to give some clearly visible warning that
the end has been reached, just like Firefox does if you use the search
mechanism with Ctrl-f.

H.
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Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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