notepad++ Auto-completion and suggestion Basic settings of Auto-completion and suggestions

Example

Notepad++ provides 2 types of features for auto-completion and suggestions:

• Auto-completion that reads the open file and provide suggestion of words and/or functions within the file
• Suggestion with the arguments of functions (specific to the language)

To enable it, you need to change a setting.

1. Go to Settings > Preferences... > Auto-completion
2. Check Enable Auto-completion on each input
3. Select the type of completion you desire:
   • words only
   • name of functions only
   • both of them
4. Optionally, check Function parameter hint on input to display parameters while typing a function name (c.f. picture below)

To use it, start to type a word or a function and after the number of characters you have specified, the suggestions will appear:

Some documentation about auto-completion is available here: http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Auto_Completion