Reputation: 3949

Tab autocomplete in Visual Studio Code doesn't work

I am trying to enable tab auto-completion with pressing "Tab" button but it doesn't work for me and it always works as Tab character when it is supposed to work as autocomplete. Which setting or shortcut should I enable or disable to have this feature?

With pressing "Tab", I will get this;

PS: Pressing "Enter" works fine and accepts the suggestion and I can disable it by setting the following setting to off.

Upvotes: 49

Answers (14)

Drew Galbraith

Reputation: 642

I found I had to press 'CTRL+m' to toggle whether the tab key would...

A) Move focus or
B) perform its assigned shortcut (e.g., autocomplete in the editor and terminal and accept suggestions).

Alternatively, try ctrl+shift+p (opens command pallete), then search and select 'Toggle Tab Moves Focus'.

^{*It doesn't solve OP's exact error, but I came looking here for this answer, and others may, too. :)}

Upvotes: 47

Quwaysim

Reputation: 407

What worked for me was to search "suggestion" under keyboard shortcuts and change acceptSelectedSuggestion from Enter to Tab.

Upvotes: 0

Maaz Ali

Reputation: 153

Open Visual Studio Code Setting.
Enable Tab Completion

Upvotes: 2

Hasnain Sikander

Reputation: 511

Well what worked for me is that I went to Keyboard Shortcuts and then in toggle the sort by precedence button on the left side of input and pressed the tab key. Like this As you can see the Accept inline Suggestion is there but its precedence is far lower.

What I did then is

open the default keyboard shortcut json file using Ctrl+Shift+P and typing open default shortcut
search for tab key using ctrl+f
find the one that says accepting inline suggestion
copy the entire object or just copy this

{ "key": "tab", 
"command": "acceptSelectedSuggestion",
"when": "suggestWidgetHasFocusedSuggestion && suggestWidgetVisible && textInputFocus" },

open the keybindings.json file using Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+P (Mac) and paste above JSON into it

Upvotes: 0

Kathan Jay Shah

Reputation: 1

Do this:

"editor.suggest.selectionMode": "always"

Here is the image the VS Code config in settings:

Upvotes: 0

Aindriú

Reputation: 3740

Choose an option in the drop down and then try using Shift + Enter to confirm the suggestion.

If that works you can go to keyboard shortcuts in VSCode (File - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts) and search for Shift + Enter, you might see something like acceptAlternativeSelectedSuggestion and you could try changing that.

Upvotes: 1

egerinik

Reputation: 1

Ctrl+Shift+P
Find "Emmet:Expand abbreviation"
Set it to "Tab" key. Maybe first set it to any other key. Cheсk. If it's work - set back to TAB.

Upvotes: 0

Neelesh

Reputation: 1

You likely have a Keyboard Shortcut overriding the System default.

File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts
Search "tab"
Look for anything where the Source is "User" that is using a Keybinding "Tab"
Right-click and Remove Binding.

Upvotes: 0

GCQ

Reputation: 310

In my situation, I was working in a remote environment and my user settings weren't being applied to it (obviously).

This may be helpful to anyone who stumbles upon this question but the accepted answer doesn't work.

Just select your environment and then change the settings there.

Upvotes: 0

Deepak Singh

Reputation: 1145

Open Visual Study Code Setting.
Go to edit in settings.json.
Add the below code:-

"emmet.includeLanguages": {"javascript": "javascriptreact"},

Now have a fun 😄

Upvotes: 0

engtuncay

Reputation: 887

there may be keyboard shortcut conflicts in vs code. you should check keyboard shortcuts for tab, especially keyboard shortcuts come from extensions. if there is, you should remove it. then it will work.

Upvotes: 3