# Intellisense in IDE

**URL:** <https://discuss.ampl.com/t/intellisense-in-ide/182>\
**Category:** New to AMPL\
**Created:** [December 4, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.ampl.com/t/intellisense-in-ide/182 "2022-12-04T15:58:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fwd79](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.ampl.com/fwd79/32/84_2.png) [@fwd79](https://discuss.ampl.com/u/fwd79)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.ampl.com/t/intellisense-in-ide/182/1 "2022-12-04T15:58:07Z")

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Hi  
Inside AMP _IDE_ there seems to be no support for any Intellisense / word completion nor there seems to be a list of keyboard shortcuts to quickly complete words like `maximize` or `subject` line as present in other IDEs. Please can you advise?  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Nicolau\_Santos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.ampl.com/nicolau_santos/32/61_2.png) [@Nicolau\_Santos](https://discuss.ampl.com/u/Nicolau_Santos)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.ampl.com/t/intellisense-in-ide/182/2 "2022-12-06T21:42:13Z")

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AMPL IDE currently does not support the features you mentioned. We will add them to our feature request list.

Some users gave very positive feedback of the unofficial AMPL extension for VSCode

> **[Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined](https://code.visualstudio.com/)**
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> Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.  Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Perhaps you could give it a try?

The procedure will be:

- install VSCode in your machine.
- click on the Manage symbol, go to extensions, search for AMPL and install the extension.
- click on the Manage symbol, select Settings \> extensions \> ampl and specify the path to the AMPL executable, so that you can use AMPL in the VSCode terminal.

Auto-complete, bracket matching and other features will be available.

Hope this helps!  
Best regards,

Nicolau

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**Author:** ![fwd79](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.ampl.com/fwd79/32/84_2.png) [@fwd79](https://discuss.ampl.com/u/fwd79)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.ampl.com/t/intellisense-in-ide/182/3 "2022-12-18T15:29:55Z")

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Hi, yeah I am aware of VS Code and other code editors which I use it at times.  
But unfortunately this IDE is the slowest/buggiest I have used so far in past 20 years of my development experience, even Notepad++ has better completion and Alt+ column selection than this.  
But thanks for putting it on feature list, the sooner it is implemented, the quicker AMPL will be comparable to at least Atom/Notepad++ etc.

This can now be closed, but please put a reply here once any of the aforementioned features are implemented.

Thanks.