How do I disable autocomplete in Apex Oracle 20.2?

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I am learning SQL and the Udemy course I'm following has us using apex.oracle.com a lot. That site recently updated to version 20.2. Their "New Features" page contains the following:

A new code editor has been implemented throughout the development environment, resulting in a greatly improved code editing experience. The improved editor includes enhanced code completion, syntax highlighting and vastly improved accessibility.

This is a LIE. The code editor now constantly tries to suggest things as I'm typing. This is extremely irritating and I can't find a way to disable it. How do I turn off this undesired flashy distracting spam?

Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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This is a LIE

I wholeheartedly disagree with you, and I would also ask of you to be more civil. The new editor contains many enhancements that benefit professional APEX developers, who don't only use it as a SQL playground.

With that being said, I agree that the word-based-suggestions for SQL can be annoying at times. For example, they appear in SQL Commands, but not in Page Designer on pages with implicit suggestions such as page items. I would actually consider this to be a bug.

For APEX 21.1, I would expect there to be many more editor options exposed. For now, this is a workaround for you:

Download the FOS Browser Extension. A small feature of this extension is the injection of (for now) 2 extra editor settings in APEX 20.2 environments. One of them is to enable/disable suggestions completely. Keep in mind that this setting will be stored in local storage, and will be applied globally, so you also won't get page item suggestions in Page Designer.

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