Disable content assist in Eclipse

Question

How do you disable content assist in Eclipse?

I do not mind allowing it to come up when I press ctrl & space, but I do not like how it automatically comes up as

Answer 1

It's not readily obvious and there doesn't appear to be a global option to turn it off all over the place. This may sound obvious, but it's important to make sure to turn off Auto-Activation on all of the different structured editor types that you do not want it active on.

Answer 2

Go to Window -> Preferences -> PHP -> Editor -> Content Assist -> Auto Activation Untick the box "Enable auto activation"

Answer 3

This Eclipse3.6 Help page on Content assist can help (it is for C++, but the same idea applies for Java on the Java > Editor > Content Assist preference page.):

The idea is to disable what triggers the content assist.

Answer 4

• Go to Window → Preferences.

• In the filter text search bar, type "typing".

• Go to Editor → Typing.

• Uncheck all that you don't want.

Answer 5

Don't know if you did get it to disable but I was having the same trouble as you. I did the following: Window > Prefrences > Content Assist Uncheck all and hit apply

Java > Editor > Content assist > Advanced Uncheck all and hit apply.

Hope this works if you still haven't found an answer.

Answer 6

In Eclipse Mars.1 :- go to Window then->preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist ->Advanced -> Restore Default ->Apply and then OK.