Eclipse: Instant autocompletion

Question

I am not entirely comfortable with way how Eclipse autocompletes code. I like the way how IntelliJ prompts suggestions (some say it's rather aggresive, but I like it that way).

So I went to: Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist and set delay to 0ms and autoactivation trigger to ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

Now Eclipse looks really fast with autocompletion but there's one very annoying thing: It completes proposed names of variables on every space hit.

So when I want to type:

String joe = "Joe"; 

eclipse is fast enough to ruin it to:

String joeString = ...; 

In other words , pressing: String joe[space]makesjoeString. I hope I was clear enoguh, thanks for suggestions :)

Answer 1

You can uncheck 'Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist -> Insert single proposals automatically'. Once done, you should only get a popup window with the proposal but it will not be inserted automatically in the editor.