FDT Tip: Boost Your Code Assist
This is the tip that I loved most from what I discovered, so naturally it’s the first that I’m posting. 
FlashDevelop’s code assist is awesome. After you type two characters, it will automatically pop up the code assist to help you complete the job. It was in fact so awesome, I almost couldn’t pull myself away to use FDT for big projects.
For the uninitiated, to trigger the code assist in FDT, you have to press the Ctrl-Space, or a period “.”. That seriously hindered my productivity and quickly became my biggest gripe, which is understandable if you compare to how FlashDevelop handles it.
After digging around the settings, I found gold. 
Here’s how to boost up your FDT’s code assist to perform just as superbly as FlashDevelop’s.
First go to:
Window -> Preferences -> FDT -> Editor -> Code Assist
In the field “Auto activation triggers for AS2:”, change the “.” to anything that you want!
For mine, I changed it to:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_.:
a-z : covers all my typing needs
_ : covers property names
. : covers after every dot notation
: : covers data typing
So there you have it! This small little change gave me at least a 25% coding speed boost without all the Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-Space, Ctrl-Space!
Hey, that’s awesome, and throughout my life I really like the “code assist” in the IDE I’ve ever used before. JCreator, Visual Studio, Flex Builder, haha..
But well, after seeing the demo during The ActionScript Conference 2008 Singapore I really was amazed by how efficient can make one code, you must consider yourself lucky ok, you just won yourself a free Enterprise license
While other people need to purchase from them =p
Hey man, that’s an awesome tip! Thanks.
SUPERB!!
good stuff!
Great tip! thnx
many thanks
WOW! This is the best software tip ever for me! I worked with Flashdevelop for 3 Years now and *had* to change to Mac (because of my new employer). I *hated* eclipse for all the “ctrl space here, ctrl space there”. You saved my ass big time!!!
This is gold! Thank you very, very much!
Cool tip!
Many thanks.
I just switched full time to FDT, I loved it before finding this, but this tip is the best I have seen saving me so much time!
thank you so much for sharing this tip. I love this!
Johnny
Thanks! Its realy cool. I think you make realy hard work.
I dont see this option in my FDT 3.5 beta install, can anyone here point me in the right direction?
nm, I figured it out.
woooow THANKS !!!!