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Proposal for customization autocomplete sort priority #45385

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artalar opened this issue Mar 9, 2018 · 15 comments
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Proposal for customization autocomplete sort priority #45385

artalar opened this issue Mar 9, 2018 · 15 comments
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@artalar
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artalar commented Mar 9, 2018

  • VSCode Version: 1.20.1
  • OS Version: elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki (Built on "Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS")
  • code --disable-extensions

Autocomplete - it's very useful option of IDE. But vscode do it sometimes not good.
First of all we need to improve autocomplete sort priority by default.

const autocompleteSortPriority = [
    // example
    /* 1 */'possible reserved words' // `for`, `extends` etc, if it won't throw SyntaxError
    /* 2 */'lexical environment', // in current file
    /* 3 */'snipets',
    /* 4 */'global scope', // and auto exports
    /* 5 */'not need at all',
]

Current (wrong) behavior:

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Wrong order, 'lexical environment' not use at all.

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Wrong order

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"2" - not use at all

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extends_for_test_variable must be after eee_variable.

The could be a lot of examples to add. So, it is possible to improve autocomplete sort priority by this simple ruls?

And much better, if we could customize autocompleteSortPriority in settings of possible ruls list.

@kieferrm kieferrm added the intellisense-config Intellisense configuration issues label Mar 9, 2018
@jrieken jrieken added typescript Typescript support issues suggest IntelliSense, Auto Complete labels Jul 27, 2018
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@mjbvz mjbvz added the feature-request Request for new features or functionality label Sep 11, 2018
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grant commented Jan 28, 2019

I had a settings.json error which caused bad autocompletion (snippetSuggestions: top).

Maybe check out these settings:

"editor.snippetSuggestions": "bottom",
"editor.suggest.localityBonus": true,
"editor.suggest.filterGraceful": true,
"editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions": true,

@randrade23
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Is this suggestion still being considered? Asking since we recently got a new feature for #45039 (also see #71084) and it's kind of related...

@htho
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htho commented Apr 11, 2019

I think this is still needed. Suggestions based on the scope are the most natural thing.

I like having text suggestions around, but they are the least interesting to me, so they should be put at the bottom of the list. There they can be ordered either alphabetically or by the localitybonus.

When get intellisense for properties of an object, they should be on top of the list.

On the other hand, in a string, string suggestions are more useful.

@tj
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tj commented Apr 26, 2019

Local scope should definitely get priority by default IMO, in Go's case you get a bunch of import suggestions for packages you're not even using before you get a local variable

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mjbvz commented Aug 15, 2019

For js/ts, we improved the default sorting order with microsoft/TypeScript#15024

@jrieken I feel @randrade23 is correct that this feature request is similar to #45039 and could be handled in core VS Code in some way. Assigning back to you for more feedback

@jrieken jrieken removed the typescript Typescript support issues label Aug 15, 2019
@simkessy
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How do I get object properties to the top of the suggestions? I'd rather get properties listed first than unrelated snippets from emmet

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jrieken commented Oct 2, 2019

This is mostly covered with #45039 - which we have shipped a while back

@gmaggio
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gmaggio commented Mar 29, 2020

This is mostly covered with #45039 - which we have shipped a while back

But I think the priority ordering part has not been covered, which I think is the main point here.

@nocker01
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This is mostly covered with #45039 - which we have shipped a while back

But I think the priority ordering part has not been covered, which I think is the main point here.

I agree! I'm googling to try and figure out how to configure the order. Personally I want all the methods together and all the snippets together etc. and to be able to order methods before snippets etc.

@KrestenHelstrup
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+1. As an embedded developer I would love to prioritize methods over defines.

@bohdan-kravchuk
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As for me, it would be great to be able to customize the order of import suggestions. Don't understand why this feature hasn't implemented yet

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earsnot commented Apr 16, 2021

I too would love to see some way of prioritizing methods over defines.

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@smolgumball
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Sorting order based on suggestion type (locals before word-based suggestions, etc.) is still needed and not covered by the feature introduced with #45039

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