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Need to disable auto complete, auto insert, etc

#1

Hi, am new to this software. am trying to disable ‘auto complete’ . when i enter command: “auto_complete”: false am getting following message: "error trying to parse settings: unexpected trailing characters in Packages\ user\ preferences.sublime-settings: 1:17 cannot figure out how to resolve this. i want to control what i type in and don’t want this software to put in things automatically. any help please?

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#2

It is:

"auto_complete": false,

As in:

{
    // Enable auto complete to be triggered automatically when typing.
    "auto_complete": true,
}

Are you missing the comma?

try also “auto_complete_delay”: 500000,

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#3

maybe, but i thought i put it in. will check again, thanks

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#4

tried with comma, same result. but doesn’t unexpected trailing characters mean something that needs to be omitted?

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#5

May you copy and paste here your entire preferences file contents?

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#6

tried other one. same result

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#7

on right side there is only this: “auto_complete_delay”: 500000,

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#8

but i have alot to learn Lol

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#9

Remove everything on your preferences file and put only this:

{
    // Enable auto complete to be triggered automatically when typing.
    "auto_complete": true,
}
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#10

ok, done. should i close it and then it will ask to save?

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#11

Just save as you like.

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#12

ok. chose file and 'save" now, i will see if it works. thanks for now!

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#13

i played and played with this because it sucked in documents with lots of number sets or tab was not being inserted…
this worked for me:
{ “keys”: [“tab”], “command”: “insert”, “args”: {“characters”: “\t”}, “auto_complete”: false },
only took an hour of trial and error.
Landis

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