Not all auto completions are equal, I suspect you've only dealt with bad ones. It's very tricky to get right and requires a lot of attention to detail in timin

Not all auto completions are equal, I suspect you've only dealt with bad ones. It's very tricky to get right and requires a lot of attention to detail in timings, human attention span, UX, and even psychology. IDEA's auto completion is mostly good, in my experience, not sure if you've tried it. > i can type "empty()" on the keyboard faster than I can look at a screen and choose "empty()" from a list, Sure, but that's a five letter word with no camel case nor special symbols. Your observation stops applying very quickly as the code base grows. Not mentioning that having to type all these letters and symbols (especially if you need to use the shift key) is pretty bad from a carpal tunnel standpoint.