I’ve disabled auto-complete, and I wanted to when I press tab it auto complete the first match, even when there are more matches(without showing the dropdown of matches).
e.g, when I press tab:
How can I configure it to pick the best match without showing dropdown(when there are more matches pick the first one)?
It’s ok when just there is a match.
Completion popup is used for all kinds of completions and snippets these days.
Just commiting the first candidate is likely to result in undesired/unexpected content to be added to your text/code.
Since ST4 does no longer support cycling through snippets via tab key the completion popup is the only way to select the desired snippet/completion.
Once multiple completions/snippets exist, ST always triggers a preview, even if auto_complete or tab_completion are disabled.
You probably want to checkout "mini_auto_complete": true setting, which causes ST to display the best completion as phantom before commiting instead of displaying the compltion popup (in most cases).