Make Eclipse intellisense/auto-suggest automatic for locally scoped and member variables/methods

java eclipse intellisense autosuggest
Garcon picture Garcon · Oct 10, 2010 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

Is there any way to make the auto-suggest drop down list appear for locally scoped variables and local member variables/methods without having to push ctrl+space? Like Visual Studio does? It appears automatically for members of objects after getting as far as typing 'object.'

I'm finding myself typing a couple of letters and hitting ctrl+space straight away when it would be far more efficient for me if I could see the list to know if typing more letters, or tapping the down key was going to be quickest...

I can't find this option in the settings so was wondering if there's some other way of achieving what I'm after.

Thanks, Sam.

Answer

JRL picture JRL · Oct 10, 2010

You can put whatever characters you want in the activation trigger box (default is just a single "."):

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