Vscode: Auto-completion with Tab and Enter

[ghost]

• VSCode Version: 0.10.11
• OS Version: Fedora 23, 64bit

It would be great if there's an option for (auto-completion):

• Pressing Tab will replace the rest.
• Pressing Enter will insert into current caret position.

Or vice-versa.

Thanks,

[jrieken]

not sure if I understand that. @haibison can you clarify what the different between _replace the rest_ and _insert into current care pos_ means?

[ghost]

Hi @jrieken,

Thanks. I mean, for example here's the content I'm typing (the pipe is the caret):

someFunc|Abc

And the auto-completion list offers someFunction. Then:

• If I press Tab, it replaces Abc with tion, so it would become someFunction.
• If I press Enter, it inserts tion into the caret position, so it would become someFunctionAbc.

If there's a white space after the caret, then either Tab or Enter will just insert the offered text into current caret position (which is current behavior).

[jrieken]

Understood, thanks for clarifying

[joaomoreno]

We could provide two different commands here and use the keybindings as a way for the user to customise the behaviour.

[jrieken]

Yeah - tho we need to think what is means wrt text edits completion providers describe. Technically they can already do this (just select the corresponding range)...

[joaomoreno]

@jrieken How are we on this?

[Springrbua]

Eclipse has a setting for this, where you can choose to replace or insert. If you choose to insert, you stil can hit ctrl + enter to replace.
Android Studio (or IntelliJ in general?) has the same feature, where tab replaces and enter inserts as much as I remember.
It would be nice, if we could have it in vscode too :)

[Lamester]

We need this feature. It's very annoying, especially when Visual Studio 2017 allows this behavior and VS Code does not.

[jrieken]

actually related (maybe same) to #10266

[silverqx]

Yeah, replace on tab and insert on enter, i'm lacking this feature too

[jrieken]

/duplicate of #10266

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[cjbarth]

Why is it that the older issue is the one marked as duplicate? I would expect that newer issues duplicating existing issues would be the ones marked as duplicates.

[geekley]

@jrieken Is this really a duplicate? Has this been implemented? I would expect "editor.suggest.insertMode" to have a third option like replaceWhenTab to allow both behaviors, like in Android Studio. So that I can choose to insert with ENTER or replace with TAB.