Intellisense is nice for what it does, but often I find myself longing for the “crude” text completion of editors like Vim. I can’t seem to find a facility for being able to complete a word–perhaps in a string, anywhere really–and have VS try to complete it for me (based on stuff I’ve typed before in the current buffer, or in all open files, or however it wants to work).
Am I missing something? (Or if necessary, is there an extension to do this?) It seems like it would actually be tons easier to implement than Intellisense, but it really can save typing.
Thanks!
You may want to look at the VisualAssist add-in. Its autocomplete is aware of the things you typed recently, so it selects the most recent match by default. It also works in more places than the standard IntelliSense (e.g. include paths).
A word of warning however, when you start using it, it’s hard to go back…