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Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide
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Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide

by Ed Burnette
August 2005
Beginner to intermediate
130 pages
2h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Automatic Typing

Closely related to code assist is a feature called automatic typing. If you're following along with the earlier example shown in Figure 23, the text cursor should be positioned after System.out. Type .println( (that is, period, println, opening parenthesis). The Java editor will type the closing parenthesis for you automatically. Now, type a double quote, and the closing quote appears. Type in some text and then press the Tab key. Tab advances to the next valid place for input, which is after the closing quote. Hit Tab again, and the cursor advances to the end. Type a semicolon to finish the statement.

Tip

Code assist and automatic typing take a little getting used to. At first you may be tempted to turn them off, but I suggest you give it time and try to learn to work with them. After a while, you'll wonder how you ever got by without the extra support.

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