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coder1957**
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June 13, 2019
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How to turn off auto complete

  • June 13, 2019
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Been using CFBuilder for a while and cannot figure out HOW to stop it from autocompleting.

Specifically ... <cfif>  it adds the </cfif>  I found a couple of setting that appear to control it but it still insists on auto completing!  ARGH!

And then it gets really stupid when it finds a <input> within the <cfif> and tries to add </inout

It also adds ] to [   ) to (   # to # so you get ##

I wish CF Studio was compatible with WIndows 7 and 10?

I must be missing the obvious!?

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Charlie Arehart
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Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
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June 13, 2019

First, please tell us exactly which CFBuilder you are using (2018, 2016, 11, 3, 2), and also whether you have applied all available updates for that (via the Help>Check for Updates menu). If you are on a version that has updates you've not applied, that could fix the oddity you are experiencing.

As for how to disable auto-closing of tags, in modern versions it's in Preferences>ColdFusion>Profiles>Editor>Typing, as "auto-close tags", with an option of "never".

(As for how you would "find" that, well, the Preferences page in Builder (Eclipse) DOES have a filter feature. If you typed "typing", you would be taken right to this page. It should also be that if you typed "close", it should have found it also (which you may have tried), but it does not work. That seems a bug. All settings should be filter-able.)

Finally, as for CF Studio, that ship has sailed.  We should never expect Adobe to update or resurrect it. But if you are unhappy with CF Builder, there are many alternatives that many CFers are enjoying, such as Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, Brackets, NotePad++, and others--all of which offer CFML support of one sort or another. I keep a list of such CFML-supporting editors here:

http://www.cf411.com/editcf

/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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coder1957**Author
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June 13, 2019

Well, I checked for updates ... installed them and now it's CRASHED and will not load with a fatal error asking me to look at the log file.

6,500 lines of stuff.  All dated today.  That's the end of that editor which I paid good money for.

ARGH!

And before I installed the updates I did the Never thing to Preferences>ColdFusion>Profiles>Editor>Typing and it didn;t change anything.  Wonder how I get a refund from Adobe for such a POS editor?

Thanks for your reply, anyway   I'll try Sublime Text as I've heard from several people it's good.

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coder1957**Author
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June 13, 2019

So, installed Sublime ... got latest version ... 3.2.1 Build 3207.

Fired it up ... familiarizing myself with it.  Started typing ... and [ becomes [] ....etc.

Now looking in this editor to find where to turn off auto-complete ... cannot find it. 

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