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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 FridayoLeary »

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.

I'm convinced that the win10 Start Menu was the single worst thing microsoft inflicted upon us in that OS. I imagine that particular discussion went like this:

Exec1:"We have a semi decent os with a refreshingly updated UI that should stay relevant for a decade. How can we make it better?"

Exec2: "why not replace the perfectly good start menu we have with an ugly, oddly proportioned rectangle with animated ads for our products."

Exec3: "Sounds great! Just make sure it has a quarter of the information density of the old one and takes up twice the screen space."

I haven't used Win11 enough to discover how they have managed to further degrade the experience, but at least it looks nicer.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by itissid »

There was a time when if you edited documentation in vscode and had copilot on it would complete internal user and project names when it encountered a path on some.random LLM project we were building. I could find people and their projects by just googling the username and contextual keywords.

We all had a lot of laughs with tab auto complete and wondered in anticipation what ridiculous stuff it threw up next.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by causal »

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.

Yeah for anyone else (especially Mac and Linux users) who recently had this frustration thrust upon you: Go into VSCode settings and search for terminal integration > uncheck.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by stefan_ »

jimbo808 wrote: post #4

I wonder if 30% of their code being written by AI has anything to do with it

30% of code written by AI, but 100% of tools must be enshittified with the terrible and behind Microsoft Copilot even if it means you will blow up the goodwill for VS Code in a matter of months

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by mcv »

Someone1234 wrote: post #17
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.

I hate the time unpredictability of it. Intellij also has AI completion suggestions, and sometimes they're really useful. But sometimes when I expect them, they don't come. Or they briefly flash and then disappear.

What would be nice is if you could ask for a suggestion with one key, so it's there when I want it, and not when I don't. That would put me in control. Instead I feel subjected to these completely random whims of the AI.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by OptionOfT »

Someone1234 wrote: post #19
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).

I have resorted to installing my laptop with Ireland / English & later switching the region to US / English. That way it's considered part of the European Economic Area.

Which allows me to disable web search in start, disable widgets, etc.

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by smj-edison »

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.

Ohh, that's what has been happening when I've had tab completion fail recently! Thanks for mentioning it...

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by locusofself »

Don't get me started on powershell!

For one, it's the right arrow key for complete for most things (but tab for others).

But by FAR the worst thing is that often times you'll type a command and try to tab/arrow complete an argument, and the module/dll or whatever is not loaded into memory, and so theres some blocking operation and loads the module which takes 10+ seconds. This happens to me almost every day.

I do love powershell otherwise though, after 20+ years in bash, there is actually some things to like about it.

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