LuaLS / LuaLS/lua-language-server
autocomplete for table.insert?
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Lua
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Description
When building an array of known type, the language server gives me a nice suggestion:
However, when using table.insert I don't get this suggestion:
Related: https://github.com/sumneko/lua-language-server/discussions/1631
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Research direction
Reproduce the two completion cases shown in the issue and compare the missing table.insert suggestion with the working known-array suggestion. Read the related discussion at sumneko/lua-language-server#1631 for context; done means table.insert receives the expected type-aware autocomplete suggestion.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100