We have similar requests from our users and UX designers, especially when working with multiple languages who's editors behave differently.
There are a few bugs about this,
Activation on any character:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=229924
Custom triggers:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=410290
It would probably be easier to add custom triggers in the short term.
Marc-Andre
I have also wondered this. This would be a great feature.
We have had 100s of requests in our organization for this.
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Subject: [cdt-dev] Why not allow user add auto activation triggers like Java
The Java content assist can add some custom triggers, people usually add a-z A-z as trigger,so that eclipse could always give assistance,it help a lot while coding.(it seems most computer could accept this function)
As many IDE provide content assist,most of them give assistance without ho t key,such as Visual Assist,Xcode,even Code::Blocks.but when I want get assist from CDT ,I must press hot key,
Why not make CDT's code assist like Java's. it will release me from a hot key.