Change hotkey for autocomplete selection

Question

In Eclipse, I find it pretty annoying that Enter is the hotkey that selects an item from the Content Assist/Autocomplete list. Especially in PyDev where there is no end-of-line

Answer 1

The autocompletion selection key(s) is editor specific. For instance in Aptana Studio, you could define set of keys for proposal selection. See e.g. Preferences/Aptana Studio/Editors/JavaScript. Since PyDev shares some code with Aptana Studio, it has similar capabilities. See "Preferences/PyDev/Editor/Code Completion/Apply completion on *" checkboxes.

Speaking of the Tab key as a selector, it doesn't seem possible w/o extra coding since it has special meaning to focus into proposals window. For these who interested could find Tab handling at org.eclipse.jface.text.contentassist.CompletionProposalPopup.verifyKey(VerifyEvent)

Cheers, Max