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Autocompletion for any file

2006-08-14
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    In many editors (vi/emacs for instance) there's an option to autocomplete text in any text file. It simply looks in the file for another occurence of the text already types and fill in the whole occurence.

    So in a text file "I went to school sorry" when you type so<autocomp-key> it'll complete the word to "sorry". If you type w<autocomp-key> it'll complete to "went". And if you type s<autocomp-key> it'll complete to both school and sorry (first click "sorry", then "school").

    Is there any option to do that with notepad++?

     
    • steakhacher

      steakhacher - 2007-07-29

      the shortcut that your are looking for is
      ctrl+maj+space and you are rigth it is very helpfull

       
    • Frigo

      Frigo - 2006-08-14

      I must take this opportunity to mention how annoying if the autocompletion key is tab or enter, so avoid these ;)

       
      • Nobody/Anonymous

        For me this feature is essential, found in many other editors (eg: pspad). A must have to increase productivity on coding.

         
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      support ++

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      > "For me this feature is essential"

      I assume you are not using NP++ at the moment then, because it lacks this (and possibly other) essential feature(s). So keep checking the NP++ pages until it does!