rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Improved autocomplete scoring for more frequently used tokens
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Description
I frequently use autocomplete on methods/functions. The scoring is a little weird though.
99% of the time I want cl to complete to clone but it completes to clamp. I get why, but this gets annoying.
I'd be happy to implement a scoring system that suggest relevant tokens instead of alphabetically.
I was thinking of scraping the top rust projects, doing a frequency analysis of tokens, and then baking that into a scoring hashmap which RA can use to provide nicer suggestions.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating rust-analyzer's autocomplete scoring implementation, then evaluate how token-frequency data from top Rust projects could be incorporated; done means commonly used completions such as clone rank ahead of clamp for cl.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100