How to disable show autocomplete when enter space?

[pelemarse]

Sublime Text 3.2.2, Build 3211 LSP-vue 1.1.5

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[rchl]

The server decides that it wants the completions to be triggered on space.

I don't think you can change that in ST3 but it should be doable in ST4 (in a way).

[pelemarse]

The server decides that it wants the completions to be triggered on space.

I don't think you can change that in ST3 but it should be doable in ST4 (in a way).

I now testing ST4. This feature will appear in the LSP-vue package or in the Sublime Text editor settings itself?

[rchl]

In ST4 you can do this:

• open Preferences: LSP-vue Settings from the command palette
• on the right side insert:

  "auto_complete_selector": "punctuation.accessor"

This will ensure that the auto-complete will only trigger on "." in the source code.

Now, this is not a complete solution because the original trigger characters that this server enables are:

"."
":"
"<"
"""
"'"
"/"
"@"
"*"
" "

So you might want to tweak that auto_complete_selector setting to enable it in more cases but that requires a bit of work as auto_complete_selector works based on scopes and not just plain characters as the server does. That's actually a good thing because it's pretty dumb to trigger completion based on character, regardless of the scope, but that means it requires more work to set up for a specific syntax.

[rchl]

I might be OK with creating a complete solution for this that uses auto_complete_selector but I'm not so sure about disabling that space trigger because I would want the completion to trigger when typing values in an object literal, for example:

{
  foo: |  // <here
}

or after typing await in await someFunction(), for example.

[pelemarse]

"auto_complete_selector": "punctuation.accessor"

Oh, that setting helped! Thank you very much! But it would be amazing if this functionality could be expanded in the future.:)

[rwols]

But it would be amazing if this functionality could be expanded in the future.:)

Expanded into what?

[pelemarse]

Expanded into what?

That autocomplete only calls on "." ":" "<" """ "'" "/" "@" "*". Without space " ".

Or trigger completion based on the scope.

[rchl]

We only have setting for setting triggers based on scope because the thinking here is that those are superior to character triggers.

That said, replicating space trigger with scopes could prove difficult or at least very verbose. I haven't tried but it could take some time to handle all cases.

Additionally, if we don't agree on whether completion should trigger or not in certain situations then we can't make a generic change that will satisfy everyone.

[rchl]

I don't think there is anything to act on here. Disabling space trigger in general might not be a change that people would like universally.

[predragnikolic]

There is a new Sublime text 4 setting in user preferences that disables showing autocomplete on space. That setting is "auto_complete_when_likely". You can set it to false.