The shortcut setting for TextAutocomplete is located at plugins options. It is the "accept with key" line. The default behaviour is to accept enter (VK_ENTER) and tab (VK_TAB).

My problem is that while enter works, pressing tab nothing happens. I'm a lot more used to complete with tab so I really would like this setting to work.

Ah. I thought you were trying to have the suggestion box open on tab - which I got to work. Sorry, totally misunderstood.

I also cannot get the tab key to work as the accept key.

Looking through the TextAutocomplete code, it looks like the VK_TAB and VK_ENTER are already set up as being the accept keys by default. So you shouldn't have to specifically set this in the options pane.

My guess is that the tab key is being process by something else. Either another plugin is using it, or another jEdit feature is. I know that the SuperAbbrevs plugin uses tab to expand it's abbreviations, so if you have that plugin installed, it could be consuming the tab event before it gets to the TextAutocomplete plugin.

If you have the SuperAbbrevs plugin installed, you might try disabling it to see if that helps.

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I don't think SuperAbbrevs is the problem. I even disabled the standard tab function from shortcuts and tab still doesn't work.

Besides that, TextAutcomplete broke on Jedit 4.3pre12. I had to install pre11 to make it work again.

Yeah, I had to downgrade too. There were some pretty major changes made to jEdit's beanshell implementation that caused a lot of the plugins to break.

At this point you should probably put in a formal plugin issue here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=588&atid=565475

Sorry couldn't be more help.

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