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Bug 208223 - Code-complete via Tab key
Summary: Code-complete via Tab key
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Completion & Templates (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Dusan Balek
URL:
Keywords:
: 209667 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-02-10 05:40 UTC by Geertjan Wielenga
Modified: 2012-03-19 11:01 UTC (History)
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Description Geertjan Wielenga 2012-02-10 05:40:56 UTC 
Currently, when you press the Enter key in the code completion box, the code completion is performed. However, in IntelliJ Idea, the Tab key does the same things as well. I.e., in Idea, both the Enter key and the Tab key are usable in the code completion box.

For Intellij IDEA users, it would be great if the Tab key were to work in the code completion box, in exactly the same way as the Enter key.
Comment 1 Dusan Balek 2012-02-10 09:21:10 UTC 
There is a small problem - hitting 'Tab' while code completion is showing inserts common prefix of all displayed completion items - feature of the NB editor from its early days :-(
Comment 2 Geertjan Wielenga 2012-02-10 09:34:17 UTC 
Is there a way that in the Idea profile, this could be implemented differently? I.e., in the Idea profile, the Tab key would behave the same as Enter?
Comment 3 Dusan Balek 2012-02-10 09:53:37 UTC 
Unfortunately, the current behavior is hardcoded in the code completion infrastructure :-(
Comment 4 Geertjan Wielenga 2012-02-10 09:58:47 UTC 
It would be good if all the keyboard shortcuts in the code completion box could be configured by the user in the Options window.
Comment 5 Dusan Balek 2012-02-22 14:51:44 UTC 
Fixed in jet-main.

http://hg.netbeans.org/jet-main/rev/7b4644780ee1

Hitting 'Tab' default behavior has been changed: If there is no common prefix to insert, the selected code completion item gets inserted now. (At most 2 hits of 'Tab' are sufficient to insert the selected completion item into a document now).
Comment 6 Quality Engineering 2012-02-24 09:30:40 UTC 
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201202240400* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress)
Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/7b4644780ee1
User: Dusan Balek <dbalek@netbeans.org>
Log: Issue #208223: Code-complete via Tab key - fixed.
Comment 7 Jiri Prox 2012-03-19 11:01:18 UTC 
*** Bug 209667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***