Re: OT: Eclipse Additions

[Robert Marcano]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:05 -0500, Stuart Ballard wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:25:36 -0500, Andrew Overholt <address@hidden> wrote:
> > What kind of changes to
> > existing aspects of Eclipse would make things easier for you?
> 
> I've only ever used Eclipse on Windows to date, but my day job
> involves working in Visual Studio .NET and there are two things that
> bother me every time I'm forced to use Eclipse. These are showstoppers
> for me, although I expect they'd be hard to fix at a Red Hat level
> (they seem pretty fundamental architectural issues rather than
> superficial feature additions).
> 
> The first is the couple-of-second delay before the autocomplete
> dropdown appears. In VS.NET this is instantaneous (it's visible by the
> time your finger lifts up from the "." key) and the difference in
> usability and productivity is *very* noticeable. VS.NET's
> instantaneous autocomplete dropdown makes it a useful tool for
> learning an API or refreshing your memory on something you aren't sure
> of the name of (you don't appreciate how useful this actually is until
> you get used to working in an environment that does it); in Eclipse
> the delay makes this far too painful to do on a regular basis - for
> me, at least.

See Windows->Preferences : Java->Editor->Code assist : Auto activation
delay

> 
> The second is Eclipse's annoying habit of inserting close-parens and
> close-braces automatically. The behavior of these runs so counter to
> ordinary intuition that I constantly end up with extra or missing
> parens because I intuitively go to re-type them. Obviously some effort
> was made to ignore manually-typed close parens when you're in front of
> one of the automatically added ones, but whatever heuristic is used is
> wrong enough of the time to be very painful.
> 

See Windows->Preferences : Java->Editor : Typing->Close braces and Close
brackets and parenthesis

> I know these are hard to fix, but hey, you asked ;)
> 

uffff that was a hard fix... jajaja :-P

> Stuart.
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