posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
consider "stable" completion popup positioning
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Description
One thing that's always bugged me a little bit about VSCode's completion popup is that it follows the cursor as you type:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1976582/194426953-737856ff-8225-4874-8e34-cd903c34067a.mov
I'd much rather the completion popup position be computed once, and only have the completion position adjusted in the completion list itself is refreshed / changed (as we do in RStudio).
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the behavior shown in the attached VSCode recording and compare it with the RStudio behavior described in the issue. Trace the completion popup and completion-list refresh behavior; done means the popup position is computed once and changes only when the completion list is refreshed or changed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100