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Example if code: customer.notnull it should autocomplete the code with: if (customer != null) { } It's a really simple thing but helps a lot.
Or for example: foo.if->tab should expand to if(foo) { }
Ad here you can see some shorties for this in intelliJ: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7342?pr=idea
Created ticket for JS: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268888 and for PHP: https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268889
And for cnd (C/C++): https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268890
I will close it, because it will handled now at the JIRA board: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-391. Please discuss it there for further information.