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Autocomplete on Mac Version of Komodo

Posted by khooroos on 2009-08-16 09:47
OS: OS X

On the Windows version of Komodo, I'm so very used to pressing the cntrl+space combination to turn "foo" into "fooVarMe" (if fooVarMe was written before in the current file, Komodo turns foo to fooVarMe with that combo).... I can't do this on the Mac version. Can someone please tell me what the combo is for this action?

On OS X, you need to do
jeffg | Sun, 2009-08-16 14:46

On OS X, you need to do Command + Space instead of Ctrl + Space. You also need to turn on this feature in Preferences, it isn't by default. Go to

Preferences / Editor / Smart Editing

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JeffG
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didn't work
khooroos | Wed, 2009-08-26 06:14

Thanks Jeff for the response but I couldn't get it to work.

On OSX, command + space opens spotlight.. so what I did is first went into preferences and temporarily disabled that to test your instructions.

I also went to smart editing and made sure everything is checked (acutally almost everything was checked by default except the very first checkbox reading "Use Tab Characters to complete words like F5"

Then I opened a new Perl file and made a variable "my $fooVeryLongName" and tried to go to next line and use this variable, as soon as I typed $f, the intellisense dropdown opened however I still couldn't use "Command + Space" for auto complete. Event Tab didn't work.

I'm so puzzled.