microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
Nonword characters should trigger autocomplete
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Description
Users shouldn't be required to hit tab/enter to autocomplete. Text should be autocompleted when you hit a nonword character (e.g. ".", "<>", "[]", "{}", "()"). For example, typing “document.bo” followed by a period should autocomplete to “document.body”.
Visual Studio supports this for C#. In VS, you can get this feature by unchecking the “Only use tab or enter to commit” checkbox in the intellisense options. It would be great to also have this functionality for TypeScript in Sublime.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, entry points, or tests. Start by locating the plugin's completion-commit handling and inspect how nonword characters are currently processed. Done means that characters such as periods, brackets, braces, and parentheses commit the selected TypeScript completion without requiring Tab or Enter, including the document.bo example.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100