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  • With Ubiquity, you type Ctrl-Space on Windows to summon the add-on, which appears as a semi-transparent window, then a few characters to indicate the command.

    Get to know this Firefox add-on. bradamant 2008

  • At any location in the CML file, I can hit Ctrl-Space, and the editor will show me which content I can add at that location.

    Editing and Validation of CML documents in Bioclipse Egon Willighagen 2008

  • In email, you could type "Ctrl-Space map gavroche nyc" to get a map to a favorite restaurant, fiddle with the zoom, then click "insert" to add it to your email.

    Get to know this Firefox add-on. bradamant 2008

  • Or, you could highlight a date and type "Ctrl-Space check-calendar" to see all of your Google Calendar appointments for that and subsequent days.

    Get to know this Firefox add-on. bradamant 2008

  • At any location in the CML file, I can hit Ctrl-Space, and the editor will show me which content I can add at that location.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • So you could highlight a term you want to know more about, like "Mozilla Labs," then type "Ctrl-Space wi this" and see the beginning of the article and click on it to jump to the page in a new tab.

    Get to know this Firefox add-on. bradamant 2008

  • Unfortunately, code hints don't pop up automatically: you frequently have to type Ctrl-Space to make Dreamweaver display the code hint list, reducing some of the benefit of this "type less, program more" feature.

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • While working in phpDesigner's text editor, you can at any point request an "intelligent suggestion" by pressing the Ctrl-Space key combination.

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • On invoking the Completion Insight with Ctrl-Space showing itself in blue, if you press Ctrl-Space again you'll see the popup changes to puce and displays the very similar Declaration Insight:

    Latest News from JAVA Developer's Journal 2010

  • Unfortunately, code hints don't pop up automatically: you frequently have to type Ctrl-Space to make Dreamweaver display the code hint list, reducing some of the benefit of this "type less, program more" feature.

    Techworld.com News 2010

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