Eclipse CDT Autocomplete not working

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Délisson Junio picture Délisson Junio · Jul 9, 2012 · Viewed 43.5k times · Source

I remember from some time ago that Eclipse had auto-complete when you type, and now I can only get it when pressing Ctrl + Space. I already checked and don't have any unresolved dependencies, I can see all the auto-complete choices when pressing Ctrl + Space, but that's not something I like to do every-time... Can someone point me in the direction to get auto-complete back? (Using CDT C++)

Answer

IsaacS picture IsaacS · Apr 22, 2013

At some point recently (not sure but since March 2013?) my Eclipse CDT stopped auto completion. I figured out that at Editor->Content Assist->Advanced checking Parsing-based Proposals lets auto completion work on my machine.

Ubuntu 12.10, Eclipse 4.2.2, CDT 8.1.2

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This snapshot shows Task-Focused, which I don't see on my another Eclipse instance. In that case I just checked Parsing-based Proposals and completion still works.

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