Support mid-word quick suggestions

[alx1024]

If you type "fun start" then start typing after "fun" without making a space, IntelliJ would autocomplete the keyword "function" while vscode only does it when you have "fun main" and then start typing after the word "fun" for example in JavaScript

funstart

fun start

[jrieken]

This issue lacks

• mentioning of the language and extension providing completions
• copy-paste friendly source code samples

[alx1024]

@jrieken since I already made the mistake to post this issue as a bug, could you please check if it it is now correct or if doing it by editing the created issue is the right way to do it? I have not done many of these yet

[mjbvz]

Seems like this already works?

[alx1024]

Thank you so much for taking the time to look into this:

if you leave no space between "func" and "start" and start typing after the "c", no autocompletion triggers. I always have to insert that space when i delete a part of a word and then want to start changing between two letters.

I hope these 2 GIFs can help:

vscode:

intellij:

[mjbvz]

I believe you can still trigger suggestions manually in that case by pressing ctrl+space after typing the t (or before typing)

Do you also see this?

@jrieken Adding you back since I think this is a question about VS Code's general suggest behavior

[alx1024]

Yes you are right it can be triggered this way, but when one is used to auto-trigger and just pressing "enter" this extra step takes me out of the flow when typing fast.

At first I wrote it off as a minor nuisance but it kept bothering me enough to open this issue.

Everytime I switch to IntelliJ I become aware that IntelliJ's behavior in my opinion is better in that regard and I was asking myself if this is maybe an easy fix.

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[alx1024]

Thank you all so much!

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