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Tab completions without pop-up

#1

Hey everybody!

Currently I’m in a love-hate relationship with the pop-up/dropdown for completions and while I did find a method to make it show everything (dictionary words, keywords etc.), I couldn’t find how to make it not appear.

Concretely, say I remember the tab triggers for the few snippets I regularly use. Is it possible to make Sublime not show the dropdown list of suggestions at all, but still to have tab completions?

I’m sorry, I don’t know if I’m explaining clear enough, maybe that’s the reason why I couldn’t find anything in the documentation and the interwebs. The idea is that it automatically populates with tens of suggestions, but I know what I want (mostly snippets made by me) and I just want to trigger those, without seeing the list every time.

Thank you.

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#2

Try turning off the following setting, which is turned on by default:

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

In my (not at all exhaustive) testing (in an HTML file), with this value set to false, pressing tab still expanded tags, lorem ipsum, and words from the current document.

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#3

Thanks, I did that and discovered the manual completion command, which I remapped (since I’m using ctrl + space for Spotlight.

However, it doesn’t seem to work in LaTeX documents, for which I use LaTeXing. Whenever I type a backslash, the pop-up with completions appears.

I assume that now it is an exclusive LaTeXing setting which I have to discover?

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#4

OK, I finally got it!

I expanded LaTeXing using the Package Resource Viewer and found in its support folder that it has completions set to “true” and the trigger \

Disabling that solved it.

Thank you very much!

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