How can I turn off web console autocomplete?
My Firefox web console has suddenly taken to showing an autocompleted list of suggestions as I type. This makes things difficult — for instance, I have a variable called "a". I want to see the value of "a" so I type "a" and hit return.
What happens is that the list pops up and "addEventListener" is selected. Now "addEventListener" is sitting on my console instead of the "a" I typed. I must therefore type "a", hit escape and then hit return. This makes it so I frequently have to hit escape.
In the settings I only found a CSS autocomplete feature that I can toggle. In the about:config I found "devtools.editor.autocomplete" and I changed it to "false" but I'm still seeing the same behavior.
How do I turn off autocomplete in the web console?
Novain'i billynoah t@
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Does typing 'a' and a space character or 'a;' followed by Enter work as a workaround?
Novain'i cor-el t@
yes a+[space] and a+[esc] both work. I'd rather not have to type an extra key. I just want to turn off auto-complete.
Novain'i billynoah t@
I can't find a way to disable autocomplete in the Web Console, so I can only offer these workarounds.
There are other things that need attention.
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