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I recently, too-trustingly, upgraded my Sublime Text 3 to Version 4 (Build 4107). Now auto complete behaves completely differently. It now has a pop-up from which I must select a choice - before I would just hit tab and it would choose the best option for me (I could then tab again to try for a better answer).

A concrete example: before, when I typed a word with a typo, for example "questino", I could, with my cursor directly after the o, hit tab and it would correct it to "question" automatically. Now it doesn't do that - now it would pop up a list of any longer words, such as "questions" and "questioned", and then I would have to arrow to one of them and hit enter. It wouldn't even give me "question" as an option - I would have to backspace over the n and then hit tab in order to get a popup that included that word, because not only is the popup annoying, with it requiring multiple additional keystrokes, but autocorrect no longer corrects to a word of the same length as my currently misspelled word, only to longer ones.

There are a lot of options in Preferences, including: auto_complete, auto_complete_size_limit, auto_complete_delay, auto_complete_selector, auto_complete_triggers, auto_complete_commit_on_tab, auto_complete_with_fields, auto_complete_cycle, auto_complete_use_index, auto_complete_use_history, auto_complete_preserve_order, auto_complete_trailing_symbols, and more.

Does anyone know the precise set of preferences to make it behave exactly like it used to? Or maybe there is a package that fixes it? Or maybe my next step will be reverting to the previous version.

Thanks.

user2616155
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The closest you can get right now appears to be:

    "auto_complete": false,
    "tab_completion": true,
    "mini_auto_complete": true,

This is still different from how ST3 works. Tab will fill in only a single value, pressing tab again will not toggle between options, but it won't have the distracting popup.

Background context on the forum. Hopefully this answer will be quickly invalidated by an update or plugin.

Annan Yearian
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