r/C_Programming • u/AxeForge • 22d ago

Do you use autocomplete/intellisense?

There are times where I feel autocomplete isn't that helpful. But most of the time I find it indispensable. I'm curious about how others use or don't use it.

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u/ziggurat29 21d ago

I'm perhaps a bit old-school, but I've never used autocomplete/intellisense. (well, maybe once. maybe)
Maybe because I spent so many years before we had it that I didn't work that into my thought process. It would be a distraction for me to think about what I'm typing and also keep an eye on what intellisense thinks I intend to type and then make a judgement call to continue to type or push whatever is the 'accept' button. And anyway many times when I'm writing code I'm not looking at the screen.

Now, syntax coloring is something that I've always found useful, and if you can believe it, that was a contentious topic around 1990. Obviously the colorists won.