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Autocomplete hard to trigger when there is surrounding text #5544

Closed AltarBeastiful closed 5 years ago

AltarBeastiful commented 5 years ago

Describe the bug When trying to add a variable in a field, say an URL, the autocomplete doesn't trigger if there is text before or after. Moreover, I would expect the aucotomplete to trigger for partial input like {{Varia

Currently the only way to trigger autocomplete is by typing a bracket followed by a space{. This forces me to add spaces when adding a variable inside an exisiting text. Also it's not very discoverable as it differs from usual autocomplete in IDE's. Postman could support some traditional autocomplete keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl + Space

To Reproduce Given: An existing variable "var"

  1. Go to a new request

  2. Type the URL "api.com/resource/id/resource/id"

  3. Remove the first "id" and type "{" => No autocomplete

  4. finish typing the variable "{var}}" => No autocomplete

Expected behavior Autocompete for variables triggers at step 3 and is updated through step 4.

Screenshots reenactment bug_autocomplete The pauses in typing are me furiously hitting Ctrl+Space as this gives me autocomplete in all my other editors and IDE's.

App information (please complete the following information): Postman for Windows Version 6.5.2 win32 10.0.17134 / x64

Additional context The workaround for this is not so hard, add a space after the bracket, but this doesn't always work and this ticket is more on inconsistent behaviour.

numaanashraf commented 5 years ago

We are tracking a similar issue at #5067. Closing as duplicate.