SQL Editor 7 "List Item Selection Key"

I have my selection keys set to "Enter,Tab" because I am more familiar with using tab to autocomplete items (Linux Bash and a lot of IDEs use tab).

When I do this in the SQL Editor, I get an added dialog on the back end.

When I do this in SSMS 2008R2, I do not get the added dialog.

If I press enter as opposed to tab, that dialog does not pop up.

In the example above I typed select * from tmpMA_S<tab> and it filled out tmpMA_Samples and then brought up the additional autocomplete suggestions for the table query? If I hit F5 to run the query from that dialog, it doesn't run but rather refreshes the SQL Assistant cache.

Can you please tell me which SQL Reference version is selected in target options for MS Management Studio and in SQL. Assistant Code Editor targets?

	SysOp wrote:
	Can you please tell me which SQL Reference version is selected in target options for MS Management Studio and in SQL. Assistant Code Editor targets?

Both have MSSQL T-SQL 2008 as the SQL Reference.

In the SQL Editor Options, do you have replace tabs with spaces enabled? I mean editor native options, not target options, sorry it's a bit confusing.

	SysOp wrote:
	In the SQL Editor Options, do you have replace tabs with spaces enabled? I mean editor native options, not target options, sorry it's a bit confusing.

Everything there is default. I don't think I've even been in that dialog before:

FYI: Changing Tab Mode to "Insert Tab Character" does not remedy it.

It has something to do with editor handling tabs differently. In pretty sure about that, but unsure which option (or combination of options) is triggering that. I'm going to ask our dev team for assistance.

	SysOp wrote:
	It has something to do with editor handling tabs differently. In pretty sure about that, but unsure which option (or combination of options) is triggering that. I'm going to ask our dev team for assistance.

Ok. I tried all the tab mode pulldown options and none helped.

2 years on and I still fight with this one now and then. That box pops up at the most inoppurtune times when I'm about to hit F5 and causes a cache refresh rather than execution.