Alternative autocompletion for Sublime Text
This plugin adds an autocompletion command to Sublime Text 2 and 3 that acts similarly to TextMate:
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Hitting the autocomplete key will attempt to complete the current word by looking at similar words in the current document.
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Hitting the autocomplete key multiple times will cycle through the available words.
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The last autocomplete position is remembered, so you can perform an autocompletion, move the cursor around, move back to where you were, and continue cycling through the completions.
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Candidate completions are selected prioritized by distance to the cursor.
The plugin improves on TextMate in one respect: If no candidates are found, the plugin reverts to using a simple fuzzy, case-insensitive matching algorithm that is similar to Sublime's file/class matching algorithm. For example, typing appc might match ApplicationController.
Installation using Package Control (simplest)
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Install the Package Control plugin unless you don't have it already.
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Open Package Controll and choose "Install Package".
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Select
alternative_autocompletion.
Manual installation
Drop the entire folder in Sublime's Packages folder. You can do this using git clone thus:
$ cd .../Packages # Whatever the location is
$ git clone git://github.com/alexstaubo/sublime_text_alternative_autocompletion.git
To map to the tab key it gets a bit more complex to preserve indentation behaviour:
Keyboard mappings
The default keyboard settings use the Escape key for autocompletion. To use the tab key instead you will need to add some complex custom keyboard mappings (Preferences -> "Key Bindings - User"). Copy the bindings found in Tabs.sublime-keymap.
Limitations
Currently does not work with multiple selections.
License
Copyright 2011 Alexander Staubo. MIT license. See LICENSE file for license.