disable eclipse auto completion

Question

I love Eclipse but I HATE auto-completion with a vengeance! I swear though, no matter how hard I look in prefs or Google I can\'t find where I turn this off!

I\'m having

Answer 1

Found it (it IS hard to find, I know). It's: Window > Preferences > Web > HTML Files > Editor > Typing (a LOT of steps, I know), then you can uncheck the boxes :).

Answer 2

Same issue, a slightly different location : looks like this is to be unplugged for each different programming language we use.

For Java, I had to look in :

(window / preferences) Java > Editor > Content Assist, frame "Auto Activation", uncheck "Enable auto activation"

For Linux version of Eclipse Juno, find it in:

Window > Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist. then uncheck "Enable auto activation" from the "Auto Activation" Panel

Then Eclipse and I can work together...

Answer 3

Yes, code completion and it's family are VERY irritating and it's hard to find the right checkbox. Windows->Preferences. And then look at all the choices for editors. You will find the place. I'm using Flash Builder and encounter the same annoyance with the Actionscript editor.

Answer 4

Well I found how to stop the tags auto-closing. For some reason it's under the Web | HTML Files preferences (even for a PHP file). I realise PHP is embedded in HTML but it seems odd the way the Editor options cross over like this. You need to restart Eclipse for this change to work.

Answer 5

To disable autoclosing for brackets and HTML tags you shall go: Preferences -> PHP / Web -> Editor -> Typing then unchek all you need :)

Answer 6

I was trying to disable this for Javascript, and my environment was not set up the way the other answers were describing. I had to go to:

Window > Preferences > Aptana Studio > Editors > JavaScript > Content Assist

There I had to empty the textboxes for:

• display proposals
• display contextual info
• insert proposal

Now it shows me suggestions, which is great, but no longer forces its favorite suggestion on me when it thinks it's appropriate. It was turning:

this.

...into:

thistory.

THISTORY? What on earth is THISTORY? I'm glad that annoyance is over.