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Rokas Lakštauskas
Rokas Lakštauskas

Reputation: 1228

How can I make VS Code add parentheses when autocompleting functions?

Is is possible to tweak VS Code so that when function gets autocompleted, it is written with () instead of just plain function name?

For example when I type str and autocomplete to strlen I would like to get strlen(), it saves quite some time.

Upvotes: 68

Views: 49862

Answers (13)

starball
starball

Reputation: 50195

There's currently no general setting that applies to all languages. VS Code leaves this to individual language services to implement (which is actually very reasonable given its extensibility model).

  • For JavaScript, use "javascript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls": true. This will cause functions to be completed with their parameter signature.

  • Analogously, for TypeScript, use "typescript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls": true.

  • For the PHP Intelephense extension, the default value of the intelephense.completion.triggerParameterHints setting is true.

  • For the Python extension, use "python.analysis.completeFunctionParens": true.

  • For C and C++ using the vscode-cpptools extension, use "C_Cpp.autocompleteAddParentheses": true.

  • For the Rust Analyzer extension, use rust-analyzer.completion.callable.snippets setting with either the value "fill_arguments", or "add_parenthesis". "fill_arguments" adds parenthesis and pre-fills arguments.

  • I did a cursory search through the Java extension's settings and didn't find anything that looked related (maybe I just missed it). I also tried googling for feature-request issue tickets ("github vscode java issues autocomplete function parenthesis") and didn't find anything from a cursory look through the top search results.

  • For C#, see Method intellisense does not add parentheses #1453, which is closed to defer to the Roslyn issue IDE: Intellisense: Insert full method call #12363

  • The Dart extension just does this by default. See the dart.completeFunctionCalls setting, described as: "Whether to insert parentheses and placeholders for positional and required arguments during code completions when using LSP. This feature is automatically disabled if commit characters are enabled.".

Loosely related: this (fairly outdated and closed) VS Code issue ticket: Autocomplete should insert parenthesis for methods #1021.

There are some extensions I'm not sure about their behaviour (and am too lazy to try out right now): R, Go, etc.

Upvotes: 2

user21791098
user21791098

Reputation: 21

In the new version of VS Code, there is no UI element we can check/uncheck to enable this feature for javascript or typescript but as another Stackoverflow solution suggests, you need to edit the settings.json file in your system and add the following lines to your JSON object

  1. F1 or 'Ctrl + Shift + P' to bring the command palette.
  2. Select Settings.json for user settings.
  3. Paste the following to the end of the file and save.

"typescript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls": true,
"javascript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls": true,

Originally posted at: VSCode autocomplete function *and method* parentheses (js/ts)

Upvotes: 2

Eyal Levin
Eyal Levin

Reputation: 18386

For Python when using the Python extension the relevant setting is:

python.autocomplete.addBrackets

As per the comment bellow, if you use Pylance the setting is:

python.analysis.completeFunctionParens

Upvotes: 29

Skill Development
Skill Development

Reputation: 9

In the latest release of vs code open setting > search "parenthesis" > scroll for

python>analysis: Complete Function Parens

mark tick Then you are ready to go.

Upvotes: 0

The Quantum Physicist
The Quantum Physicist

Reputation: 26256

For C and C++, use this setting:

"C_Cpp.autocompleteAddParentheses": true

Upvotes: 14

Darcy
Darcy

Reputation: 51

For Python, when using Pylance, add in settings.json:

"[python]": {
    "python.analysis.completeFunctionParens": true,
},

Upvotes: 5

Soner from The Ottoman Empire
Soner from The Ottoman Empire

Reputation: 20891

It can be solved by ticking javascript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls property up.

Upvotes: 78

Damir Nafikov
Damir Nafikov

Reputation: 332

You can go-to File->Preferences->Settings
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And click on Edit in settings.json
After that write down "python.analysis.completeFunctionParens": true, and reload VS Code

Upvotes: 4

iamnotnano
iamnotnano

Reputation: 111

Just like @snr's solution in JavaScript.

For TypeScript, you can try this:

"typescript.suggest.completeFunctionCalls": true

Upvotes: 11

Dumidu Pramith
Dumidu Pramith

Reputation: 414

in settings.json file Set "python.autoComplete.addBrackets": true.

set "python.autoComplete.addBrackets": true

Upvotes: 5

Malik Shaharyar
Malik Shaharyar

Reputation: 1

If you are working in flutter, try resetting all settings of VS Code because it do add parentheses by default.

Upvotes: 0

Gama11
Gama11

Reputation: 34138

Some language extensions allow using ( as a so-called "commit character" to trigger the insertion of a completion item. This works in at least TypeScript, JavaScript and Haxe.

If "editor.autoClosingBrackets" has not been disabled, this will also auto-insert the closing ).

If it doesn't work for a particular language extension, perhaps consider opening a feature request on the repository in question.

Upvotes: 8

amirali
amirali

Reputation: 1964

It's possible. You can create your own snippets, and it will be shown in the intellisense: User Defined snippets. You can also use snippet-creator extension for comfort.

Upvotes: 0

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