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

Question

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 k

Answer 1

The sad thing is that - at least to my knowledge - content assist didn't change in those 2 years. It is still only triggered by ".", "->" and "::" and there is no way to configure it. The Eclipse Java editor though can be freely configured as wished by Nadith Pathirage: You can add any keys you wish to trigger content assist there. I wonder why CDT can't achieve the same...

(I know this is an old thread, but the topic is still important in my opinion...)