Eclipse Intellisense?

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Ian Vink picture Ian Vink · May 31, 2010 · Viewed 103.1k times · Source

How do I tell Eclipse to automatically make suggestions as I type? I'm looking for a Visual Studio Intellisense-like feature with Resharper.

Currently I have to press CTRL+Space each time.

Answer

Tony picture Tony · Nov 19, 2010

I've get closer to VisualStudio-like behaviour by setting the "Autocomplete Trigger for Java" to 

.(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

and setting delay to 0.

Now I'd like to realize how to make it autocomplete method name when I press ( as VS's Intellisense does.

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