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Bug 500944 - content assist does not remember the last choice
Summary: content assist does not remember the last choice
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 495065
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: IDE (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-09-07 00:03 EDT by Ivan KO CLA
Modified: 2016-09-08 10:47 EDT (History)
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Description Ivan KO CLA 2016-09-07 00:03:59 EDT 
Content assist (invoked with Ctrl + 3) does not offer the choice from the last time it was used; i.e. it does not remember the last choice and user has to type in to get suggestions every time. Not sure if this is intended, but this was not the case before. In previous versions of Eclipse, content assist choices would get remembered for future use and offer the same choice as previously (in the same context). It would be good if this behavior could be restored (and/or made it as a cutomizable in preferences).
Comment 1 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-07 18:05:23 EDT 
I can not reproduce the issue in Eclipse SDK
Version: Oxygen (4.7)
Build id: I20160830-0800
OS: Windows 10, v.10.0, x86_64 / win32

I can partially reproduce the issue, with the steps described in Bug 495065 .

Could you please provide steps to reproduce, and tell is your toolbar is visible?

Thanks for reporting!
Comment 2 Ivan KO CLA 2016-09-07 22:33:04 EDT 
While the steps to reproduce this are pretty easy (just invoke content assist two times in a row), it indeed seems that this is related to the content assist menu being created as a context menu (at the cursor location) or from the toolbar menu (the new approach); as mentioned in the other bug report. I cannot (or don't know) how to move content assist to the toolbar menu, so I have the legacy one. Having that said, I think the toolbar one did save the last choice, while the legacy does not, for some reason.
Comment 3 Patrik Suzzi CLA 2016-09-08 10:47:23 EDT 
To see the Standalone QuickAccessDialog, hide the toolbar 
with: 
 Window > Appearance > Hide Toolbar, 
or : 
 Ctrl+3 > Toggle Visibility of the Window Toolbar

As the issue shows up in the Standalone QuickAccessDialog, this is a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495065 ***