Your thoughts on the new ABAP editor

I am interested to know other people's opinions on the new ABAP Editor and Debugger. I just started to use the new editor and I am kind of dissapointed:
- the code completion feature is a far cry from the Java editor. It shows only one element in the code completion list based on a strange rule (I think it is first in the alphabetical order, and then based on the previously selected item)
- it does not provide code completion for types
- the code completion stays on for a short period of time, after that it dissapears. Is there a key combination that can launch the code completion on demand?

Hello Tiberiu,
With the new Editor, you can launch the code completion with the combination "Ctrl + Space".
Regards,
Walter

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