microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
`lib.d.ts` isn't ordered appropriately for signature help
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Bug
Domain: lib.d.ts
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Description
This extremely broad signature help is occurring because lib.d.ts is ordered from oldest to newest. Unfortunately that means that users end up getting complex signatures that they never cared about. Even if we came up with a Matcher interface, it's not clear that that's even useful.
Contributor guide
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 examining the ordering of entries in lib.d.ts and the signature-help behavior illustrated in the issue. Determine what ordering would present useful signatures first, then define tests or a reproducible case showing when the broad suggestions improve and what completion looks like.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100