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allow case insensitive code completion #249

Open doofin opened 2 years ago

doofin commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, code completion is case sensitive. It might be nice if case insensitive code completion is also supported

Describe the solution you'd like

Add an option to allow case insensitive code completion

Describe alternatives you've considered

not yet

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NekoiNemo commented 1 year ago

This is quite a bit of inconvenience in projects with large functions/classes, where you might necessarily remember the beginning of the name of a specific parameter/variable, only it's middle part, and with file being too large to be able to easily look it up.

And entering just that part of the name you remember makes Metals come up with nothing (which would not be the case if case-insensitive suggestions were a thing), while entering it capitalised might make it show up, but will also fill the suggestions with countless types (since they are the identifiers that are expected to start with a capital letter in Scala).

To illustrate the point: screenshot_1670582879 screenshot_1670582884

P.S. In the similar way case sensitivity makes it harder to discover (for example when using an external lib you're unfamiliar with, especially a Java ones that are often riddled with consts) and use constants as you need to remember/know them to be such and enter their name capitalised

tgodzik commented 1 year ago

That's a valid point! I think this might be good to improve, I recommend voting on the issue to make it more visible with :+1: