Disabling autocompletion in comments
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- TypeScript
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Description
When writing comments in Lua, the autocompletion suggests words while typing. This happens without a delay and after typing the first letter of a word. I found the quickly flashing suggestions very distracting and wanted to disable them.
I assumed that I could change this in the Lua section in the settings, and tried this:
"Lua.completion.enable": false,
"Lua.completion.showWord": "Disable",
"Lua.completion.workspaceWord": false,
This didn't fix the issue, and I still saw the suggestions.
I opened an issue here: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/issues/2988
As noted in a comment on that issue, vscode-lua overrides the editor.quickSuggestions setting. This was unexpected to me. It would be helpful if this could be changed or documented.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the VSCode extension settings behavior that overrides editor.quickSuggestions, using the linked LuaLS issue #2988 for context. Done means users can disable comment autocompletion as expected, or the override and available configuration are clearly documented.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100