Turn off autocomplete in Visual Studio Code

I’ve become a big fan of Microsoft’s free open source code editor, Visual Studio Code.

When teaching new students, I find it important to turn off the intellisense autocompletion features. That can be done by adding the following lines to user preferences:


// Turn off autocomplete in Visual Studio Code
// http://code.visualstudio.com/
// Add the following lines to user settings
// OPTIONAL WORD WRAPPING
// Controls if lines should wrap. The lines will wrap at min(editor.wrappingColumn, viewportWidthInColumns).
"editor.wordWrap": true,
// Controls the indentation of wrapped lines. Can be one of 'none', 'same' or 'indent'.
"editor.wrappingIndent": "indent",
// TURN OFF AUTOCOMPLETION
// Controls if quick suggestions should show up or not while typing
"editor.quickSuggestions": false,
// Controls the delay in ms after which quick suggestions will show up
"editor.quickSuggestionsDelay": 90,
// Enables parameter hints
"editor.parameterHints": false,
// Controls if the editor should automatically close brackets after opening them
"editor.autoClosingBrackets": false,
// Controls if the editor should automatically format the line after typing
"editor.formatOnType": false,
// Controls if suggestions should automatically show up when typing trigger characters
"editor.suggestOnTriggerCharacters": false,
// Controls if suggestions should be accepted 'Enter' – in addition to 'Tab'. Helps to avoid ambiguity between inserting new lines or accepting suggestions.
"editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": false

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