How can I get rid of this auto complete suggestion? The one with the stamp icon to the left. It is n...

# intellij

[echsor]

How can I get rid of this auto complete suggestion? The one with the stamp icon to the left. It is never what I want.

[echsor]

Alternatively, how can I make TAB select the highlighted suggestion instead of ENTER?

[Adam S]

Press the up arrow to highlight the for entry in the list. Then click on the lightbulb in the bottom right

[Adam S]

then you can click "disable .for template"

[Adam S]

Alternatively: open settings and goto

Settings | Editor | General | Postfix Completion

[Klitos Kyriacou]

I find the .for template very useful, and don't really understand why it's never what you want, but if you don't like it you can disable it as Adam says.

[echsor]

Why use that template over .forEach {} ?

[echsor]

@Adam S thank you

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Because for (element in collection) { ... } has different semantics than collection.forEach { ... }. In the latter takes a function-type argument and the block is actually a lambda that introduces a new meaning for the identifier it, the break and continue statements cannot be used, etc. The plain for loop is much simpler: the code inside the block is just code inside the block, and not part of another function.

[Klitos Kyriacou]

By the way, the Kotlin Coding Conventions guide prefers for loops: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coding-conventions.html#loops