Visual Studio 2015 / Visual Assist autocomplete behaviour

Question

When I type a word e.g. "cat", and then start typing another word at the start "ccat" and then use autocomplete (press enter with a suggestion selected, e.g. "cout"), the entire first word will be replaced, so I end up with just "cout".

This is not ok. How do I make it stop?

(I would like to end up with "coutcat" instead.)

I'm not sure whether Visual Studio or Visual Assist are responsible for this (it seems to happen with Visual Assist disabled too, but only sometimes?? o.O ).

Answer 1

That might be the result of Visual Assist completion behavior.

Try changing the CompletionOverwriteBehavior setting in the registry for Visual Assist to 01.

See http://docs.wholetomato.com/default.asp?W640