Wildcard in completion

Where did you find this? I don't know of such a feature in IntelliJ IDEA
although I think it's nice and there's a similar issue:
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEABKL-5632

You mean you didn't know it before? Or it doesn't work for you?

Here's exactly how it worked for me at least for the couple last weeks.
I tried it without thinking and it just worked.

After ctrl-space:



After typing  "*win"


After acepting one of the suggestions ("*" is removed automatically):


Peter Gromov (JetBrains) wrote:

Where did you find this? I don't know of such a feature in IntelliJ
IDEA although I think it's nice and there's a similar issue:
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEABKL-5632

I know the wildcards work if you use "ctrl+n" to go to a class, which is really handy.

But too bad it doesn't work for incremental search, that would be useful too sometimes.

Hmm. Your use case still doesn't work for me. I can easily imagine a
plugin that could do such things, but not the core IDEA. BTW I was
thinking of   a more general case when you type * in the editor and only
then invoke completion. That's more difficult to implement.

No plugins installed (other than the bundled ones of course).
But I think I found what is different in my configuration:

In Editor->Code Completion I always set "Case sensitive completion" to "None".
When I switch that back to "First letter" (which is the default IIRC), then the
completion popup pops down as soon as I type the "*".

Hm, so it shouldn't be too hard to make it work regardless of that option, right?

;)


Peter Gromov (JetBrains) wrote:

Hmm. Your use case still doesn't work for me. I can easily imagine a
plugin that could do such things, but not the core IDEA. BTW I was
thinking of   a more general case when you type * in the editor and only
then invoke completion. That's more difficult to implement.

Hm, so it shouldn't be too hard to make it work regardless of that
option, right?

;)

Yes, it would be easy if the only thing you want is to be able to enter

• when lookup is shown. An request please?

Thanks for looking into this: IDEA-25072