Turn off the red rectangles
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How do I turn off the red rectangles that show in atuocompletes like foreach? After some time I noticed that they don't help much.
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These are by design and indicate the places where you should provide some input and hit Enter to confirm it.
Yes, I know. I tried using them for a month or two, but I can't get used to it. I prefer to position the cursor in the autogenerated template manually.
In IDEA I can live with it because it's only on certain blocks. But it's really annoying in phpstorm - it shows red rectangles for function parameters and this is even slower than usual. Instead of typing comma I have to press enter. It confuses me. For complex block like for/foreach loops I can understand, but for function parameters it doesn't speed up anything.
You are welcome to report this usability problem at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI (for PhpStorm product and specify what templates should avoid using red boxes).
Hmm for phpstorm I found how to turn it off - it's an option in settings "smart function parameters completion".
For templates in IDEA I have to think about more what exactly slows me down before I post a usability problem.
Thanks for the reply!