I used to think that autocompletion facilities like Intellisense and its variations were a key component to productivity when writing code. But I only thought this because I&#x27;ve typically used IDEs that provided that. I recently moved to emacs because it offers so many other conveniences, but the one item I found hard to get going reliably and usefully was autocomplete for my particular situation (which is not relevant).<p>But, I discovered how much I actually didn&#x27;t need this kind of tool. I&#x27;m curious what others&#x27; opinions and experiences are?<p>In emacs if I really want to save typing, I go much further than any normal IDE and use yasnippet to customize much larger chunks of code for me, so I can still lean on that. But using intellisense as an &quot;inline function lookup&quot; doesn&#x27;t appear as useful as I at first thought.
Ask HN: How many of you actually use and rely on intellisense/autocomplete?