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Is it possible for Eclipse to autocomplete based on not just first few letters [migrated]

In several IDEs I'm familiar with (Visual Studio with Visual Assist, Qt Creator and Intellij IDEA), the autocompletion feature can give suggestions based not just on the first few letters. For ...
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Best IDE for Linux (Ubunutu) [closed]

I would like to have my default OS as Linux. But the reason I'm still using windows is because of Eclipse IDE. I have installed Eclipse IDE in Ubunutu but it is not showing any auto suggestion when I ...
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Which past version of Netbeans IDE that has lightness almost equal or better than Eclipse Indigo?

Currently, I'm a long Eclipse user because my past and current companies always deal with eclipse. Recently I met some example java codes created using netbeans. I downloaded and tried Netbeans 7.x ...
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How to make Eclipse code look like Sublime or Intellij, adding lines for code blocks? [closed]

I really like Eclipse, but I find that almost any other IDE or text editor has something that I can't find in Eclipse: a vertical line that indicates a code block. Is there any plugin in, or option ...
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How much time do you spend actually developing vs. infrastructure activites?

When I'm working I feel like most of the time I'm not doing actual work. For example after making a change to the code in order to test it, I have to first build the project, and start the server(say ...
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Is a company order to switch to a certain IDE a red flag?

I recently joined a rapidly growing startup. In the past 3 months the development team has grown from 4 to 12. Until now they were very laissez-faire about what developers used to do their work. In ...
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What is used in industry to manage Eclipse installations? [closed]

In a recent servery, Eclipse came out on top as the most used IDE Infographic My question is how does managing Eclipse installations work in industry? I have been trying this tool called Yoxos which ...
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What was Java enterprise programming like before Eclipse?

I'm your standard Java/Oracle developer at a large software firm and Eclipse 3.6 is what I spend most of day in. Java is incredibly verbose and that can be painful (but we don't need another blog post ...
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What advantages do simple text editors like TextMate have over Eclipse for Java development?

I'm torn which IDE to use. The power of eclipse or the simplicity of TextMate. I'm wondering which one has specific advantages over the other, productivity wise.
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What have my fellow Delphi programmers done to make Eclipse/Java more like Delphi?

I am a veteran Delphi programmer working on my first real Android app. I am using Eclipse and Java as my development environment. The thing I miss the most of course is Delphi's VCL components and ...
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Writing or extending existing emacs packages: is it worth or should I move to Netbeans/Eclipse?

I'm finishing my master degree course in CS and I've almost become addicted to Emacs. I've used it to write in C, Latex, Java, JSP,XML, CommonLisp, Ada and other languages no other editor supported, ...
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How is IntelliJ better than Eclipse?

I know there have been questions like What is your favorite editor/IDE?, but none of them have answered this question: Why spend the money on IntelliJ when Eclipse is free? I'm personally a big ...
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I use an IDE (Eclipse) to develop software. Why should I switch to vim or emacs? [closed]

My day job is java/web developer. I have been using eclipse for ~5years. I think its excellent and I also use Webstorm for javascript and html/jsp. I do on occasion need to ssh into server and ...
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What features in Eclipse is not available in Visual Studio? [closed]

I have done much development in Java using Eclipse, and now I have started to use Visual Studio for .NET development. So far I find the IDEs to be able to do the same things, but just different. What ...