How to change key to 'accept' intellisense 'offer' for VB.Net in Visual Studio 2015 (update 3)

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When I'm coding in VB.Net in VS2015 I would like to use CTRL+SPACE to select Intellisense proposal when coding. Currently I have to use SHIFT+SPACE and I see no way to change it.

VB.Net code editing

In the preceeding example screenshot it is visible that I have 3 potential options to autocomplete. I can select any of them with key up/down but in order to select the proposal I have following options:

  • Press 'SHIFT+SPACE' - this will accept the proposal and position the carret right after the word enabling me to press '(' or whatever else I want
  • Press 'SPACE' - this will accept the proposal but it will also add a white space at the end which is ok for properties/fields but not good for methods
  • Press '(' - this will accept the proposal but it will also add a '(' character at thend which is ok for functions/sub but not good for properies/fields
  • Press 'CTRL+SPACE' - this actually does not do anything :(, CTRL on its own makes the Intellisense menu gray-out

In the key configuration window I found the Edit.CompleteWord command:

Keyboard binding dialog

However this command already has CTRL+SPACE assigned it but it simply does not work. In addition SHIFT+SPACE is not mentioned as one of the keybindings.

Note: VS2015 does have a flag 'Toggle Completion Mode' but I actually see no difference if this option is checked or not.

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You can use tab, which doesn't append anything to the selected option. Enter is another options but will append a newline. And Ctrl+Space brings up the intellisense options but doesn't complete them, so it might be overriding the compelete option?. – A Friend
Have you any other program running in backgroud which might listen to Ctr+Space already? – Alex B.
@Alex Not that I'm aware of. – Dalibor Čarapić

1 Answers

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you can Use Tab and this will accept the proposal and position the current right after Tab Use space it well show You next Complete Word .