microsoft / microsoft/language-server-protocol
Feature Request: Symbol scope information in CompletionItem
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Description
Idea: Provide information on symbol scope in completion results.
Rationale: Although server-side filtering and sorting is preferable, clients may wish to perform additional sorting and filtering based on the scope of completion items, e.g. to prefer local variables, etc. Currently, CompletionItem and CompletionItemKind do not seem to provide sufficient information to do so. Adding e.g. an enum for basic symbol scopes and providing a field of this type in CompletionItem seems like a reasonably simple way to add this capability.
Related issues: #898, maybe others?
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the CompletionItem and CompletionItemKind definitions and the discussion in related issue #898. Determine the appropriate representation for basic symbol scopes and how scope information should be exposed in completion results; done means the proposal is specified clearly enough for clients and language servers to implement consistently.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- api, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100