Is there a way to disable the autocomplete in VS2K10's FIND box in the menu bar? I find it incredibly irritating to have to paste a parameter name into the find box in order to get around autocomplete filling in a totally different parameter name, which happens to start with the same letter as the param I'm looking for. I've seen the suggestions for disabling autocomplete in IntelliSense, but didn't yet try them since it seemed unrelated. Am I mistaken?
Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.
This has been "sort of" answered here. I say "sort of" as its behaviour is likely causing your issue as well.
There is another work around here.
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I am using IntelliJ IDEA 15.0.6 with the Ruby plugin.
I noticed that when i write in java, the code completion popup automatically highlights the first suggestion like so -
this allows me to just press "enter" in order to complete the word and continue.
when i write in ruby, however, no suggestion is selected, like so -
this makes it so that i have to navigate with the arrow keys in order to pick a suggestion before i can hit "enter".
i tried digging deep in the preferences and all over the internet, but i can't seem to find out why this is happening. i tried adding the option "insert selected variant by typing dot, space, etc.", but it doesn't work because there is no "selected variant"
i know this sounds small, but it's cutting off my workflow horribly, and i believe there are others out there who would like to know how to do this.
thanks to anyone who can help
Thanks to Eugen Martynov's comment, i found jetbrains' bug tracker site, where there i found an issue exactly like mine. click here to see the issue entry
to make it short, the answer is as follows:
open "search everywhere" (double shift)
search for "registry" and choose the one under "Actions" this will open a new window.
here look for the key ide.completion.lookup.element.preselect.depends.on.context and uncheck its box.
after the box has been unchecked code completion will select the first suggestion before user navigation.
Thanks again to Eugen for your help
Edit: I see "Silverlight -" is in front of my question, which I realize may have something to do with the alphabetical order of my tabs... really Visual Studio 2013 should be in front, anyone know if that can be changed?
I've been using the newer Visual Studio 2013 for about a week now, and I've found some quirks with it. The one that seems to happen the most is when I'm in the XAML editor working on something, suddenly if I go over to the property window I can't enter anything. I'm not running/debugging. I can type stuff in the regular XAML code editor window.
Even stranger, one of the times, I could get the cursors to appear in the fields. I typed a bunch of junk and just one character from what I types appeared. Another time I couldn't enter values into the properties, but I could double click on an event in the events window and create a new event handler. Just a minute ago I had the opposite, where I couldn't double click in the events window.
I think VS 2013 introduced async handling of more things, could it be related to that? Or perhaps because I'm using Silverlight? Right now my only workaround is to restart VS, does anyone have any knowledge about this? Anyone else experienced this?
I'm going to submit a bug report, but it would be a while before there's a patch, so I'm wondering if maybe someone understand the problem better and has a workaround? Or maybe just confirm that this exists and that I'm not crazy/my computer's haunted.
Edit:
I should mention another weird thing that happened two nights ago. I thought it was some how my doing, but I never figured out how I could have managed it without noticing. I was working on a piece of code, went to run after changing a few lines, and suddenly I had a ton of compiler errors. I go over to a user control I haven't touched in hours and suddenly the main LayoutRoot grid is completely empty. Luckily I'd committed to source control, but still...
I found an easy way to deal with this problem. It happens a lot after debugging so what I did was I created a batch file on my desktop containing this line taskkill /f /im XDesProc.exe and I run it every time the properties start misbehaving. Its the quickest way to reload the designer's functionality. I submitted this bug to microsoft they claim it will be included in the next update.
Me and another guy are developing a silverlight app and having the same exact problem. I accidentally found where the bug lies and how to mess with it to allow you to type "very briefly". Apparently this has something to do with tooltips. If you hover over anything in the property window when this bug is happening and allow a tooltip to popup while your cursor is blinking in a field, for the duration that the tooltip is up you can resume typing normal. As soon as the tooltip times out and disappears you can't type. So the only way you can edit or search properties is while a mouse tooltip is floating active. Very unusual. Can't seem to find any kind of tooltip settings in the program and the situation is very hard to find on google because search results assume your talking about programming tooltips. As far as I know we have had this issue since before release candidate. We are currently on official update 1 with the same problem persisting.
When in Xcode editing code for my objective C files, I often press Command-F to bring up the little Find-In-Document banner across the top. Sometimes this gets stuck in case-sensitive search, and when it does that it also won't loop through the entire document and sometimes won't even display the selected found string.
I can't find any options to turn off the case sensitivity, and I never intentionally turned it on. I've restarted xcode several times hoping that would be it but it's changed nothing.
Slightly off-topic, but this was the best place I could think of to ask this question. Thanks for any response!
EDIT: I've also tried restarting the computer. Still no dice. Also this happens on any project I open in xcode and is not specific to one project.
Anna's comment is the correct answer: When you press Cmd-F, clicking on the little magnifying glass next to the search input brings up a menu where you can check/uncheck Ignore Case.
You can set parameters for search by clicking on magnifier placed in left-side of search-bar.
There is provision to select/de-select "Match Case" i.e. case-sensitive search on pop-up shown.
Below is screenshot for the same.
I am a noob to XCode, so forgive what could be a dumb question. It seems like XCode kind of does intellisense (or code completion). When I type in:
[self setT
it suggests the setTitle because its the first matching one. Is there a way to make it work a bit more like Visual Studio where you get a dropdown of available methods/properties/etc...?
You can press "Esc" for a list of suggestions.
You can also turn on automatic suggestions in the preferences.
Fn + Esc will bring up a list of them, and you may have to enable it in preferences
It's not always context sensitive (or gets confused about context easily)
But it still works
I find the solution explorer is a bit slow to get around in sometimes, and think that there might be a better UI solution out there. I like Ctrl+T but sometimes a visual cue is better than remembering the class name?
I think it would be nice you had a second, similar window, that only shows files that have been opened during the current session? Any other suggestions
If you want to upgrade your experience to the next level, you need to have Visual AssistX.
It enables links between your code and the files it comes from. And it's also light-weight. You will forget the Solution Explorer quite rapidly.
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In the toolbar's search box, you can type ">of ". It will give you an intellisense-like dropdown of files in your solution as you type out the filename (e.g. ">of def" will show "default.aspx" and "default.aspx.vb" if those two files are in your solution).
I'm not sure if this any more/less cryptic than ctrl+t, but I thought I'd throw it out there.