microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Preselect completion list entries based on contextual type
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Description
It should be cool if tsserver could provide a new command guesstypes to give the capability to guess parameter types when completion is applied
In other word, I would like to support the same feature that I have done with tern
For instance if you open completion for document and select addEventListener :
When you apply completion, I would like call a tsserver command 'guesstypes' to retrieve variables, functions for each function parameters. Here a screenshot which shows a list of variable with string type for the addEventListener type argument :
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Research direction
Start by reading the tsserver completion handling and compare the linked tern-guess-types feature. Define the scope of a guesstypes command that returns contextual variables and functions for completion parameters, and consider how selecting a completion should use that result.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100