Suggest Non-Keywords in ABAP Text Editor

The new ABAP editor provides the auto complete feature for the ABAP Keywords. How to enable this auto complete feature for non-keywords such as variable names.

To turn on the auto suggestion for Non-keywords in the ABAP editor, just go to ABAP editor (SE38) and open any program in display/change mode. Click on the ABAP editor options button in the right-bottom of the ABAP editor.

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Select the checkbox “Suggest Non-Keywords from the Text” under Code Completion.

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Now go back to the editor in change mode and start writing some ABAP code.

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As soon as you write one or two letters of already declared variable, the system proposes the variable name.