Question

Eclipse is being helpful again, and I want it to stop. The situation is this:

1. It auto-completes a function name, to foo(), and because takes an argument, the cursor is now between the ().
2. I fill in the argument, and because the line still needs a semicolon at the end of line, I press the End key.
3. The cursor jumps to the end of the line (after the closing paren), and I press the ; key.
4. Eclipse is being dumb, jumps back into the parens, selects my argument, and replaces it with the semicolon.

Result: foo(;)

Why is it doing this, and how do I stop it? It’s bad enough that Eclipse is doing something ridiculous here, but I can’t even explain what it is that it is trying to achieve!

Answer 1

Press Return/Enter instead of End. Eclipse will then jump to the end of the line for you to insert your semicolon.