Disable autocomplete when pressing ESC

[dserodio]

Credit: http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/261065/7067

[mathiasbynens]

It doesn’t seem this is necessary, given the previous command that disables autocomplete everywhere. Can you confirm this?

[dserodio]

For me (El Capitan, 10.11.6) the previous command is not enough to disable the annoying "autocomplete when pressing ESC".

Steps to reproduce:

Test 1: Only disable NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled:

$ defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled 0 $ defaults delete -g NSUseSpellCheckerForCompletions $ open -a TextEdit

Press a Press ESC

Result: Annoying autocomplete dropdown opens. Quit TextEdit

Test 2: Also disable NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled:

$ defaults read NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled 0 $ defaults write -g NSUseSpellCheckerForCompletions -boolean false $ open -a TextEdit

Press a Press ESC

Result: No annoying autocomplete dropdown