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How do you disable content assist in Eclipse?

I do not mind allowing it to come up when I press ctrl & space, but I do not like how it automatically comes up as I am typing. It just messes me up. For instance it, I would end up scrolling through the options when I just want to go up a line. It is getting tedious having to press escape whenever it decides to pop up.

I have found the page in the preferences for it, but I cannot seem to find out how to disable the auto-pop-up.

EDIT: I am using the application for android development. I have already disabled "auto-activation" for both Java and XML, but it does not seem to have an effect. The window will still pop up automatically.

EDIT2: I tried restarting the program after making the changes, but it still had no effect. I made sure that the option changes were still in effect, and they were still in effect.

PhaZ90771
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  • Can you try making a new workspace and see if those settings applies there in an Android project? – VonC Feb 05 '11 at 10:39
  • @VonC, I created a new namespace, but it did not work. The way I have been testing is typing "android:", but every time a pop up comes up after a couple seconds. – PhaZ90771 Feb 05 '11 at 11:53
  • Actually, I meant workspace, not namespace. – PhaZ90771 Feb 06 '11 at 17:58
  • +1 because there have been bugs in `xulrunner` that cause Eclipse to crash when content assist is active. – Raedwald Feb 27 '12 at 11:49

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This Eclipse3.6 Help page on Content assist can help (it is for C++, but the same idea applies for Java on the Java > Editor > Content Assist preference page.):

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The idea is to disable what triggers the content assist.

VonC
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    I already said in my original post that I know where the options are for content assist. The problem is that I have tried disabling it, but there is no effect. – PhaZ90771 Feb 05 '11 at 10:14
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    @PhaZ90771, it works fine for me. Content assist disappears once i uncheck Auto-Activation!! – R K Feb 05 '11 at 10:21
  • For some reason it isn't working for me. I tried restarting the application, but it still had no effect. – PhaZ90771 Feb 05 '11 at 10:26
  • This helped me, because I stopped looking for global content assist settings and started looking at each language's specific configuration page, where I found what I was looking for (in this case, for Clojure) – Asfand Qazi Feb 26 '14 at 09:05
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  • Go to Window → Preferences.

  • In the filter text search bar, type "typing".

  • Go to Editor → Typing.

  • Uncheck all that you don't want.

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  • Thanks! Best answer for me since I need to work on multiple editors and the auto-completion bug me to no end! – alchn Mar 29 '16 at 10:24
  • Thanks! This worked perfectly! I wasn't able to find the JSP settings to stop closing double quotes, and this found it very easily. – Mark Eldridge May 18 '16 at 13:47
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Don't know if you did get it to disable but I was having the same trouble as you. I did the following: Window > Prefrences > Content Assist Uncheck all and hit apply

Java > Editor > Content assist > Advanced Uncheck all and hit apply.

Hope this works if you still haven't found an answer.

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It's not readily obvious and there doesn't appear to be a global option to turn it off all over the place. This may sound obvious, but it's important to make sure to turn off Auto-Activation on all of the different structured editor types that you do not want it active on.

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In Eclipse Mars.1 :- go to Window then->preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist ->Advanced -> Restore Default ->Apply and then OK.

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Go to Window -> Preferences -> PHP -> Editor -> Content Assist -> Auto Activation Untick the box "Enable auto activation"

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