Eclipse Content Assist is Appending Class Name to Variable Suggestions

Content Assist in Eclipse Juno is appending the Class name of variables to suggestions. For example, if I start to type:

private String firstName

and hit Return, Eclipse changes this to:

private String firstNameString;

I don’t know if this is specific to Juno or if I accidentally turned this ‘feature’ on, but it is really annoying. Any idea how to get rid of this?

Answer

I don’t know how to resolve the problem when you hit Return (because i can’t reproduce the issue), but here is the solution to tell eclipse to not modify the variable name automatically when you hit ctrl + space:

In eclipse: Select Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist

uncheck “Insert single prposals automatically“.