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Asked: 2026-05-15T05:29:54+00:00

This is a particularly annoying problem I’m having, and I can’t be the only

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This is a particularly annoying problem I’m having, and I can’t be the only one to have issue with it.

In NetBeans, when you type part of a method, then hit CTRL-SPACE, it displays the code-completion popup, whereupon you can hit tab to finish out the word. This is great, and pretty much how all IDE’s operate.

Example:

Thread.sl

< CTRL-SPACE >

Thread.sleep

Yay!

Problem is that in this context, once you type in a paren, it auto-fills the parameters for the method with their default names, and inserts a closing paren (regardless of whether you have disabled the option to automatically close them on the preferences page for code completion). This behavior is NOT present if you had manually typed out the full name.

How is this helpful to anyone? You’ve got to type over it your actual variable that you will be passing, and NetBeans gives you no option to prevent the closing paren on code-completion.

Does anyone have a way to solve this issue, without having to dive into the netbeans source and build it just for this minor of an issue?

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  1. Editorial Team

    inserts a closing paren (regardless of
    whether you have disabled the option
    to automatically close them on the
    preferences page for code completion).

    That option is for brackets, not parentheses.

    Does anyone have a way to solve this
    issue, without having to dive into the
    netbeans source and build it just for
    this minor of an issue?

    Remove the opening parenthesis from the list of completion selectors.

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