[John van Til]

Hello,

I’m trying to determine if it’s possible to sort the methods shown after entering a dot after the class.
eg
<%
String myString = “1234”;
myString.
%>

I would like the list of methods to be shown in alphabetical order.

is this possible?

thanks

John

[Scott Anderson]

John,

I’m sorry, but presently there isn’t an option for sorting the completions. Good idea for an enhancement though.

[Steve Bang]

I’m really hoping that someone tells us that this is fixed already in the next release…please. This is an issue that is driving me crazy — it really needs to be fixed in 2.8/3.8. This significantly impacts the productivity of at least 4 registered ME users that I work with. In our view, this is NOT an enhancement request (it’s a design oversight/flaw – a bug). Why would you expect it anything less than alphabetical sorting? That’s how all other products we’re aware of work, including IntelliJ. When you’re not sure which method you’re looking for, alphabetical really helps in the scanning and recollection process.

Steve !

P.S. John works with our company, Our chief tech support person, Robert, who recommends MyEclipse to customers, just pinged me (again) moments ago about how annoying this is.

[Steve Bang]

I stopped by the guy who pinged me and he pointed out that the Java perspective method completion does it correctly, that is in alphabetical order. So, we would definitely argue that this is a bug.

Steve

[Riyad Kalla]

Steve,
I’ll send this back to the devs with an increased priority. NetBeans autocomplete does this (non-alphabetical) and I agree, its very annoying.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Scott Anderson]

Ok, Ok, we hear your squeals of pain. 😉

We agree that the completions should be sorted and we’ll have it implemented in 2.8 Beta 2. Thanks again for the continued feedback.

[Riyad Kalla]

Fixed in 3.8Beta2

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