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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 WackyFighter »

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 use this script here and it will remove the stupid bing search feature.

https://github.com/musman96/win11debloat

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by reactordev »

torben-friis wrote: post #33
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.

It’s so weird, vscode worked flawlessly for me for years and after migrating to neovim a month or two ago I keep seeing complains. Has there been a change lately and in the project, or is it just internet bias?

Copilot

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by cowlby »

locusofself wrote: post #30

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 lov…

Powershell right arrow is madness… just found out F2 shows all the options though and finally it’s a little more tolerable

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by koakuma-chan »

citbl wrote: post #35
koakuma-chan wrote: post #26

Ditch VSCode, switch to Zed.

There are still plenty of things that VSCode does and Zed doesn't. E.g. Dart debugging. Also there is the VC money problem with Zed, at some point, that money will want returns on every dollar spent.

1. Use println

2. That's fine, they'll just build some cloud feature

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by matltc »

tsujamin wrote: post #16
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.

Nope, not crazy. Pretty much solely used it for years but got a lazyvim* setup last week

Still has excellent integrated debugging and is more familiar than nvim, but it has really started to get in its own way the past couple minor versions

*Not "lazy I'm" (though perhaps I am for letting that slide)

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by 8note »

esseph wrote: post #45
FridayoLeary wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ou…

Do you remember the windows 8 full screen start menu?

i miss the wondows 8 inking tools. loved that for drawing system diagrams and flow charts:'(

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by n8cpdx »

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.

Do people know you can turn copilot off?

Re: Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together

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Post by ziml77 »

I really hate that by default all of these tools perform completion with tab. It makes it very difficult to add indentation. It's not a problem with traditional autocomplete because you either need to already have a character typed before the cursor, or to have manually summoned the completions. But these AI autocompletes will try to generate code on completely empty lines, so you think you're pressing tab to get an indent and instead end up with code you did not want.
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