How to change eclipse suggestions order and content

Question

I installed the Eclipse Neon but feels bad with its code suggestions.

Take the code template as an example, usually I type main and press <ALT> + / to show the suggestions. In the old versions, the main method template shows at the first one. However, the top N is occupied by many Main* class main, it doesn't make sense for me.

Is there any way to change it ?

• how to remove any Main* class's suggestions
• how to let the code template move to top

Answer 1

Not exactly what you need, but the most approximate solution I know is that you can press CTRL+SPACE repeatedly to browse the content assist list. The first list Eclipse shows is the default proposals. But if you press CTRL+SPACE again and again, Eclipse will show a more specific list each time.

Go to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content assist > Advanced.

The upper list allows you to select (not to sort, sorry!) the contents that will show up as default proposals. This is where you read this unordered, unpractical list of contents. Then, if you press CTRL+SPACE again, Eclipse will show the poposals by categories. The order for these categories to show can be set by the lower list in this window: Content assist cycling.

Answer 2

Don't know if this will be relevant any more, but i ended up here looking exactly for this, and later found out a solution. This might be linked to a specific Eclipse version (i use Oxygen right now) Go to Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content assist and you will find an option that let you select between relevance and alphabetically.