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Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by lloydatkinson »

n8cpdx wrote: post #6

Not a very clear issue report, but looks like a conflict between language features, copilot, and possibly snippets? The project is open source and invites feedback in the form of issues, although sadly their issue report page is a bit of a cesspool - will really make you lose faith in humanity. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues I think maybe vibe coders got to it and don’t realize that there are certain requ…

> Not a very clear issue report, but looks like a conflict between language features, copilot, and possibly snippets?

Which is overwhelmingly the VS Code experience for any language. Everything feels shaky. I've had to report a bunch of irritating issues like the post for TypeScript - never fixed or resolved. I have never needed to report issues like this for C# in Visual Studio, and when I have tried C# in VS Code the experience makes me wonder if it's a bad joke.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by pcunite »

Someone1234 wrote: post #13

This is a company that cannot get "basic file search" working on their OS for 30+ years, I'm hardly holding my breath as they double-down on overcomplexity with even more overcomplexity. Shout-out to FileLocator Pro as an aside.

yep, and FileSearchEX

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by tsujamin »

meander_water wrote: post #8

This is actually bearable compared to the new terminal suggestions in vscode. Not only does it autosuggest bizzare completions for commands, it breaks shell completions. So when I tab a file path, it shoves the absolute path into the partially typed path making it unusable.

I thought I was going crazy, but it started feeling materially worse sometime in last few weeks.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by Someone1234 »

diath wrote: post #11

It's because Tab accepts copilot suggestion, you have to press Enter instead to accept the language server suggestion.

Yes, and what a mess it has been.

Intellisense + Intellicode + Roslynator (extension) combined were really the height of productivity in Visual Studio. Now they've driven a steam-roller over all of that, forced CoPilot down our throats.

I LIKE CoPilot's "chat" interface, and agents are fine too (although Claude in VS Code is tons better), but CoPilot auto-complete is negative value and shouldn't be used.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by Someone1234 »

OptionOfT wrote: post #7

Reminds me of Windows Search. It's been botched since they added ads to the Start Menu. Pretty soon VSCode will show you intellisense ads in the list of code completions.

Windows Search requires a DNS lookup, and HTTP request to start your search, as a direct result if either one of those is slow the whole UI lags and hangs. It hasn't ever been fixed in Windows 11.

Also, there is a RegX way of disabling "bing" for-real in the search but they released an update that caused doing so to break search entirely if that was set (totally a coincidence I'm sure).

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by Someone1234 »

mfro wrote: post #10

Pretty sure you’re supposed to press return in order to accept a dropdown suggestion. Tab is for accepting the AI code completion. I disabled completions.

Pretty sure they hijacked a key most developers had a muscle memory of using since Visual Basic 6 to pump their AI usage metrics, and then invented a workaround that requires re-learning their tool.
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