Tab autocomplete without the dropdown?

[braun]

When editing markdown files in Sublime 3, I was able to quickly toggle between words for autocomplete using the tab button. There was no dropdown with suggested words and pressing tab the first time already gave me the first match, with subsequent presses going through the list of matches. This made writing markdown really fast.

That behavior seems to have changed after I upgraded to Sublime 4. Now pressing the tab key brings up the autocomplete menu and I need to press tab for the second time (or the enter key) to pick the first option. Picking the best match now requires keystrokes instead of one.

1. Is there a way to bring back the old behavior?
2. Having the autocomplete menu still sounds like a good idea when writing code instead of prose, so is there a setting that would allow me to control this behavior per file type?

[bitsper2nd]

Go to Preferences and search for the auto_complete options. Set to false the one related to what you want.

[simov]

@braun, not really, you can check this issue for more details:

Making Tab completion in ST4 like ST3

I’ve been very used to the ST3 tab completion, as I had it configured. I pressed tab and the word completed with something like it that was somewhere in the file (that was what I understood the behaviour to be). If it wasn’t the completion I wanted, I pressed tab again, and cycled through them. When I was happy I continued typing, and it inserted the new characters after the inserted text. In ST4, this appears to have been replaced with tab popping up a distracting box over the top of the next …