Autocompletion of current function doesn't happen in Godoc comment

[atombender]

Say I have this:

// SetT<caret>
func SetThing() {
}

I expect code completion to automatically suggest SetThing for me. If I type SetT, nothing happens. If hit cmd-space to force autocompletion, I might get SetThing (or something else starting with SetT), but it's a textual autocompletion, not a code completion.

Apologies if this has come up before. I distinctly remember writing about it in a comment, a long time ago.

[ramya-rao-a]

There are multiple layers at play here

1. Completions do not appear as you type when inside comments. This is a VS Code feature. You can tweak this by editing the editor.quickSuggestions setting
2. When you do force a autocompletion, the Go extension intentionally does not invoke gocode for suggestions when typing inside a line comment as it was considered as noise
3. Funnily gocode does get invoked when you are inside a block comment. This is because there was no simple way of figuring out the start and end of the block comment without parsing the whole file contents

One solution I have in mind is to invoke gocode for line comments if editor.quickSuggestions supported comments. i.e if editor.quickSuggestions was set to true or editor.quickSuggestions.comments was set to true, then the Go extension will return suggestions when inside comments.

Or we will have to introduce a new setting just to enable suggestions inside comments

Thoughts?

[atombender]

That sounds like a good solution. I didn't know about the `editor.quickSuggestions` setting, thanks.

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On 19 October 2017 at 20:45:58, Ramya Rao ***@***.***) wrote: There are multiple layers at play here 1. Completions do not appear as you type when inside comments. This is a VS Code feature. You can tweak this by editing the `editor.quickSuggestions` setting 2. When you do force a autocompletion, the Go extension intentionally does not invoke `gocode` for suggestions when typing inside a line comment as it was considered as noise 3. Funnily `gocode` does get invoked when you are inside a block comment. This is because there was no simple way of figuring out the start and end of the block comment without parsing the whole file contents One solution I have in mind is to invoke gocode for line comments if `editor.quickSuggestions` supported comments. i.e if `editor.quickSuggestions` was set to `true` or `editor.quickSuggestions.comments` was set to `true`, then the Go extension will return suggestions when inside comments. Or we will have to introduce a new setting just to enable suggestions inside comments Thoughts? -- You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1291 (comment)

[zh-h]

@atombender 27197ae This is my solution, but i thing it is useless now😥

[ramya-rao-a]

Closing this in favor of #1005