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Bug 319908

Summary:	Auto activation of code assist should not be on by default
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Mauro Molinari <mauromol>
Component:	PDT	Assignee:	PHP Core <php.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	ganoro, silviya, wywrzal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description Mauro Molinari

2010-07-14 15:23:20 EDT

Build Identifier: I20100608-0911

In PHP editor the code assist is too intrustive. You just need to enter a character that the PHP proposal window shows up. This is annoying and a source of frequent errors while typing.

Just like other editors (i.e.: Java editor, JSP editor, XML editor, JavaScript editor...) I think the code assist should popup only when Ctrl+Space is invoked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a PHP file and try to write in something; for instance, type letter 'd': the code assist kicks in almost immediately.

Comment 1 Roy Ganor

2010-07-14 15:26:29 EDT

Actually this is enabled by default since many users asked this, but... good news is that you can disable it very simply.

In preference page go to PHP | Editor | Content Assist and disable the auto activation option

Comment 2 Mauro Molinari

2010-07-15 01:47:53 EDT

Thank you Roy, I didn't notice it. Sorry for filing this "bug"... However, I'm still convinced that the auto activation should be optional and not the default value, in order to have a consistent behavior with the rest of the platform. If someone wants it, he/she can enable in the options... So, I'm changing this report a bit, feel free to close it again if you don't plan to do any intervention.

Comment 3 Michal Niewrzal

2015-01-22 15:14:12 EST

This option is enabled by default for many years. Wont fix.

Comment 4 Sylvia Tancheva

2015-02-10 06:11:41 EST

As Michal wrote this has been for many years as most users like it that way.
There are 2 ways out if you don't like it - first one is to disable the auto-activation, and the other one is to enlarge the delay so that it will not show so fast as soon as a letter is being typed.

Closing the issue