Ability to turn off code hinting

[1c7]

My computer performance is not very good....
when i use brackets 28.. edit javascript code are slow..

example: input "al"(alert) or "fun"(function)..
software will stop.. wait about 300~500 Millisecond.
then pop out auto complete list...
this is Annoying...
how to close auto complete Feature?
Thanks!

[njx]

@1c7 - are you seeing this in all JS files, or just in <script> blocks in HTML files? If the latter, this could be the same as #4608. If that's the case, let us know and we'll close this out as a duplicate.

As a workaround for now, you can move aside or delete the JavaScript code hints extension. First, locate the Brackets source folder in your installation; on Windows, this is in the "www" folder next to the Brackets executable (in Program FIles\Brackets Sprint 28); on Mac, you have to select the Brackets application file, right-click and choose "Show Package Contents", then navigate into the Contents/www folder. Within the www folder, navigate into extensions/default, then select the JavaScriptCodeHints folder and move it somewhere else (e.g. to your desktop). Then restart Brackets and JS code hinting should be disabled. To re-enable it, you can just move the folder back in.

[njx]

Assigning to me to track until we figure out what's going on.

[Revlin]

Thank you much. The lag of this feature was making Brackets unusable as the javascript portion of my project grew in size/complexity. Will there be a menu option soon?

[Kingsler34]

I'm also experiencing this slowdown with JS autocomplete when using Brackets sprint 30.

I found that it was occurring mostly when trying to autocomplete JS that was inline inside of my .html documents. If I moved this JS to an external .js file, then the autocomplete ran perfectly with no lag.

[marcelgerber]

I experienced this yesterday, too.
My pc is quite good (although the Brackets start takes 6 seconds), but it hung some time (not to much, I would say 50-100 ms).
Would be cool to be fixed.

[njx]

Hi--are you all only seeing this in <script> blocks? If so, that's #4608. If not, please let us know.

[marcelgerber]

It's happened in a .js file to me.
I've just tested it again, it took most time if I just write a dot into "nothing" (clear new line). But it isn't that much to me, because as I said my computer is quite fast (Win8).
But if I imagine how long this will take on my old Vista-PC...

[marcelgerber]

Ok, I've tested it on my old Vista-PC (it is really slow).
If you just type a dot in a new (clear) line, it takes about 500ms to 1s to load the results. During this time the whole program hangs, so I can't type any more and so on. After that it hangs for every single letter I type (for example I want to type .save, this takes up to 3s and I must type some letters more often).
I've experienced this all in a .js file.

[Revlin]

Happens for me in .js files. I'm on Windows 7

[njx]

Tagging JS Code Hints and reassigning to @dangoor since he's focused on improving that area.

[peterflynn]

We've had the ability to turn off code hints for quite some time now. The secondary issue in this bug is poor performance of JS code hints, but we have a bunch of items in Trello about improving JS code hints (such as this one). Any objections to closing this? (CC @dangoor, assignee)

[dangoor]

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[ghost]

How can i turn off auto tag closing?

[redmunds]

@ifexdebest

How can i turn off auto tag closing?

See info about the closeTags preference in How to Use Brackets doc.