IntelliJ Idea 10: how to turn off auto-complete in .txt files

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Richard J picture Richard J · Feb 13, 2011 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

I've just upgraded to IntelliJ IDEA 10, and it has started doing something extremely annoying. While writing documentation in a .txt file it has started giving me word suggestions as I type. This is, instead of helping, just irritating me while also consuming system resources. I haven't been able to find a way to turn this off in the Settings window. Perhaps there's a way of telling Idea not to do this for certain file types or in code comments?

Cheers,

R

Answer

TimT picture TimT · Nov 25, 2011

Goto Settings->Editor->Code Completion and untick Autopop code completion in (ms), or if you set this to something like 1000, then it give you time to carry on typing before poping up.

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