Comments on: Sun Distributes ‘100 NetBeans IDE Tips and Tricks’ Mini-Book at NetBeans Day 2008.

By: sgwong

sgwong — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:31:59 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Tip #71 is really helpful for me.

By: Adam Myatt

Adam Myatt — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:16:50 +0000

Tip # 71 (Hippie Expand) is discussed in detail here at Gregg Sporar’s blog : http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/archive/2008/02/hidden_hippie.html

Tip # 72 (case insensitive code completion) - select Tools > Options > Editor. Check or unCheck the ‘Case Sensitive Code Completion checkbox. You no longer have to use Camel Case for proper code completion (like in NetBeans 5.5). Discussed here in Roumen’s blog : http://blogs.sun.com/roumen/entry/netbeans_quick_tip_25_insensitive

By: sgwong

sgwong — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:23:48 +0000

Can you show me tip for tips #71 & #72?

Tip 71 : Auto-Complete Any String (Hippie Expand)
Tip 72 : Make Code-Completion Case (In)sensitive

What is both tips about? I am really annoying with keep on typing control-space for auto complete. I want the auto complete turn on all the time so that every key stroke will trigger the auto complete.

The best auto complete I use is the auto complete from Vim, it will search all the variable you already declare or it will search for the file system name or any string you had type from the current file or other file which you included without the need to type control-space. I also using Visual Studio which also show the auto complete with the Visual Assist add-on.

Can I do that with netbean also?

By: Adam Myatt

Adam Myatt — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:25:04 +0000

I’m not aware of any soft copies. I also don’t think the hard copy is widely available on any book sites. Try asking the author, Ruth Kusterer. The link to her blog is in the article above.

By: mols

mols — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:10:40 +0000

what if i wanna get a copy? if there is a softcopy , please let me know. if not, then how can i get it ? i’m a fan of netbeans since 5.1 and i’d like to know more practically about it… thank you