Improving Eclipse autocompletion?

Question

Currently the Eclipse autocompletion seems only to be triggered after a dot or on parameters, I want to use it for variables too, e.g. if I have

Strin

Answer 1

In addition to the suggestions above, did you try ALT + / it does incremental matching? No?

Answer 2

You can press "t" and then Ctrl+Space.. is it?

Answer 3

If you press ctrl+space key combination, eclipse will show you the code assist window.

Type t and then hit ctrl+space, it will show you possible matches

Answer 4

In Eclipse

Window--->Preferences---> search for Content Assist under Content Assist go for Advanced
and check the Java Praposals.

done.

Answer 5

ctrl + space

Answer 6

First of all, thanks for all the replies. They are correct, however you have to press the key combination each time. Here's how it's done automatically:

That plug-in is not necessary any more. Just go to Preferences > Java > Editor > Content Assist and paste:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

into the "Auto activation triggers for Java:" field.

This simply triggers auto activation after any English alphabet character and after dot. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=159157#c12 Works fine :-)

Hint: You probably want to additionally set the auto activation delay to 0, at least if you are used to visual studio ;-)