Foam: Foam disables word based suggestions in markdown files

[bpugh]

• Foam version: 0.7.6
• Platform: Windows
• Issue occur on the foam template repo: Yes

Summary

It seems having the Foam vscode extension installed disables or breaks word based suggestions in markdown files even with "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": true.

I verified with a fresh install of vscode with only the foam extension installed and when the extension is enabled I don't get any word based suggestions but as soon as I disabled the extension and reload vscode then the suggestions are working again.

I also noticed that suggestions work if the extension is installed but I'm not working in a directory with a foam.json

Is this intentional? If not, I'd be willing to investigate if someone could point me in the direction of where to start looking in the codebase.

[riccardoferretti]

hi @bpugh thanks for reporting this and volunteering to look into it. It is definitely not intentional.

The place to start looking would be packages/foam-vscode.
To set your environment up, take a look at https://github.com/foambubble/foam/blob/master/docs/contribution-guide.md
The only place where I believe (off the top of my head) we interact with the vscode suggestion system is in packages/foam-vscode/src/features/open-dated-note.ts, might be a good place to start (cc @ingalless as he worked on it).

Let me know if you need anything

[bpugh]

Thanks for the advice! I got the extension building and running locally and confirmed the issue is fixed by commenting out the two calls to registerCompletionItemProvider here: https://github.com/foambubble/foam/blob/master/packages/foam-vscode/src/features/open-dated-note.ts#L218-L224

Just have to figure out the solution now. I'll start digging through the vscode documentation to try figure out exactly whats happening.