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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 31

How to trigger quick suggestions without IntelliSense

Is there any way to turn on quick-suggestions/auto-complete for words in a file that isn't supported by IntelliSense? For instance in Sublime the quick suggest box will suggest matching words in the file which usually ends up pretty useful.

If I manually trigger the suggestion box the suggestions I would want to have automatically show up while typing do show up. Just trying to make them show up without me hitting ctrl+space constantly.

editor.quickSuggestions is already true and I've played around with the delay. Nothing.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3981

Answers (2)

Madmenyo
Madmenyo

Reputation: 8584

I came here while looking for a solution for enabling tailwind intellisense in combination with react. Eventually I found a post pointing to the settings editor.quicksugestions. I turned on "strings" like in the below example, which made intellisense automatically popup inside string tags.

"editor.quickSuggestions": {
  "other": true,
  "comments": false,
  "strings": true
}

Upvotes: 0

Alex Dima
Alex Dima

Reputation: 23059

VSCode doesn't have a setting to enable 24x7 suggestions for basic languages. As a workaround, you can try adding many keyindings in the following shape:

Go to AppMenu | File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and in your keybindings.json file use:

[
{ "key": "a", "command": "^editor.action.triggerSuggest", "when": "editorTextFocus" },
{ "key": "b", "command": "^editor.action.triggerSuggest", "when": "editorTextFocus" }
...
]

I know it's ugly, but this is the only workaround I can think of until such a setting is added.

Upvotes: 1

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