Eclipse CDT (for C++/C development) how to invoke content assist automatically while typing

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Nadith Pathirage picture Nadith Pathirage · Apr 1, 2011 · Viewed 23k times · Source

Eclipse CDT (for C++/C development) how to invoke content assist automatically while typing like in Visual Assist for Visual Studio. In other words how to give triggers as all keyboard characters to invoke content assist. Please help me..

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EboMike picture EboMike · Apr 17, 2011

It seems that all the useful content assist options are turned off by default. Go to the preferences -> C++ -> Editor -> Content Assist -> Advanced, and check Parsing-based proposal for default (top list) and then some more (like parsing, word, template) in the bottom one.

Of course, you're free to check even more, but parsing-based is the one that matters the most. Of course, you also need to have indexing enabled, by at least that seems to be enabled by default.

And, of course, as already suggested, go to the Content Assist pane itself and make sure it's all turned on, and reduce the delay to make it show up faster (unless you want it to only show up when you press Ctrl+Space).

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