Is there a QuickText like (Tab Trigger) plugin for Eclipse?
If I read Tab Triggers of TextMate correctly, especially the part stating:
Tab triggers are also useful when they match program keywords and lead to actions (such as inserting snippets) that do what you would normally do after entering the keyword.
, the closest eclipse feature for that would be Preferences / Java / Editor / Templates
(the difference being that is is triggered not by Tab, but rather by Ctrl+Space...)
The example for instance allows you to insert quite a bit of code after typing only three letters...
(source: iipt.fr)
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I just created a repository to share our team snippets, and although everyone can see, update, and push new snippets, none of them appear on the Java Editor auto complete.
For testing purposes I created a new snippet (arrayremove) copying the configuration from an existing one (arraymerge).
What am I doing wrong? Am I missing something? Or is this a bug?
Quick Answer
You have to press CTRL+ALT+SPACE to start the Snipmatch snippet search. Snipmatch snippets will not appear in the normal content assist popup.
Background
As one of the developers of the Code Recommenders Snipmatch plugin, let me give you a little bit of background information.
Snipmatch uses a separate shortcut to trigger a search to allow more intelligent snippet searches. For example, the search string may contain spaces and will find keywords defined as an Extra Search Term or as a Tag. Or you can use wildcards * in your search string.
You can change the shortcut on the Preferences > General > Keys preference page. Look for the Snipmatch Snippet Completion binding.
For more information, have a look at the Snipmatch manual.
if you need further support with Snipmatch, you can also contact me directly or go to the Code Recommenders forum.
Netbeans has a nifty shortcut completion, I use while I type. It works in comments, in strings. Pretty much places where regular completion is useless. It basically autocompletes using the editor scope (in other words, whatever word matches closes to the point you are typing). Is there something similar in Eclipse ? I am making a transition due to lack of mybatis/mylyn support in netbeans. You can read more about it here https://blogs.oracle.com/chengfang/entry/why_am_i_using_netbeans .
It's called Word Completion. The key binding may vary; Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+L to find out.
CTRL+Space will show and sometimes autocomplete (depends on the settings you choose) methods names, variables and etc.
You can read more about specific settings and further fine tuning here.
I have installed GGTS, on ubuntu and am trying to edit .Groovy files with the built in editor.
The autocomplete is extremely annoying because while it will recognize my domain objects i.e. my User class etc.. It doesn't recognize basic groovy, for instance I start typing "def" to define a variable then hit space and it will autocomplete to "Default", similarly if I try to type in "return" it autocompletes to "RETURN" while I am typing as soon as I hit space, which is very annoying.
Like i said it will recognize classes, so if I type def u = new User(), the User part will complete ok, but the problem is that the variable u I defined earlier isn't recgonized later in the code.
I hope you guys get my meaning... No idea how to fix it, short of not using the groovy editor and treating it as plain text. I even tried disabling content assist, but that didn't seem to work for some reason
I was having this problem in GGTS 3.4.0.RELEASE today, and getting very angry with the situation.
Somehow my workspace had the "Auto activation triggers for Java" set to "_.abcd....z" (all the lowercase letters)
Window -> Preferences
Java -> Editor -> Content Assist
"Auto activation triggers for Java" set to just "."
This seems to have helped dramatically.
I'm still not sure what caused my workspace to have this setting.
Make sure that you're in the Grails perspective; that can impact some of the Groovy/Grails features and how Eclipse (even GGTS) leverages them. You'll find the perspective button in the upper right. If you're in Java or Debug, odd things like this may occur.
Also, how are you creating and opening your Groovy files? Do you use the context menus or the Grails command prompt tool to issue orders like "create-controller"? If you're creating the files in some other way, try using those methods to generate them, and see if you get the same results.
Question:
Is there a way to run an eclipse action that is available from the context menu in the editor on every file of an project.
Actual Case:
I have to work with the leon3 and my dull mind has trouble enough understanding the code, that I do not want to scan lines to see if there is a semicolon hidden in there to see if there are multiple instructions or if the end if happens to be behind another instruction rather than on a line of its own (I missed an end if, which caused me to think that statements were conditional,...), therefore I would like to format the source nicely. I have access to Sigasi PRO which offers the option to "beautify" code as an operation in the editor. I would like to run this operation on all files in the leon project automatically.
Sigasi indeed only offers formatting in the editor at this time. In the Sigasi editor, you can format a selection or the entire editor's content. But, you can not trigger the formatting action without an editor.
I have not tried this, but I think you can achieve this with the Eclipse EASE project. EASE is a scripting environment for Eclipse.
eclipse is good at autocompletion when static typing , when is dynamic typing ,eclipse failed to autocompletion ; in sublime ctrl+p ,type # and type 'method name'to find function/method list , It is a wonderful way to find the right method while coding dynamic typing language ;
the key point is :
the operation in sublime text 2 is very convenient ,all key type is in one input box ; never need to chage active file tab; we can focus on the active code file tab ;
is there any plugin in eclipse or vim which can search method of any file conveniently ?
In ST2, this feature is used to quickly jump to a method anywhere in your project.
In Eclipse, Control+Shift+R can be used to jump quickly to a "resource" (file) and Control+Shift+T is for jumping to a type (not method). Control+o opens a very useful and quick outline of the current file. It doesn't work project-wide.
I'm not aware of something that works exactly like ST2's feature. Did you search the marketplace?
In Vim, FuzzyFinder, Command-T and CtrlP all allow you to navigate through your project using fuzzy matching. They can be setup to use your tags file. AFAIK, there's no plugin that provides exactly what ST2 provides.
From your question I'm not sure you use it as intended: it sounds like you use it to show a list of methods in some file in your project in order to use the right method in your code. This sounds a lot like you'd benefit from autocompletion to me.
Being an IDE, Eclipse shines on that front: its "code assist" window will show you where the suggestion is defined as well as its type.
Vim's "omnicompletion" is quite limited compared to an IDE but, depending on your language and using some third party scripts, it can be made quite powerful.