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TypeScript intellisense: Suggest to prepend "this." if I typed the name of a class member #21202
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From Anders Lassen (@Duckers) on January 16, 2018 11:47
Apologies if this is the wrong repo for Intellisense suggestions, if so, please redirect me.
- VSCode Version: 1.19.1
- OS Version: MacOS 10.13
A very common scenario when writing TypeScript (coming from C#) is that I forget to prepend this. when I want to reference a member of the current class. My muscle memory also relies a lot on the intellisense to complete the names of members. This very often results in the code completer completing an identifier with a very unlikely option from the global namespace, instead of simply prepending this. to refer to a local member.
Example:
import { Post } from 'Server/Boost/Post'
export default class PostComponent {
Options = {} as Post.Post
get hasImage() {
return Opt<caret here, pressing enter>
}
}This ends up completing as HTMLOptionElement or something similar, when this.Options would have been a much more probable intention.
Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#41668
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mjbvz commentedon Jan 16, 2018
Interesting idea. Perhaps we can leverage the new
insertTextproperty on completion items for thismhegazy commentedon Jan 16, 2018
seems like a nice addition to the
insertTextsupport we have already.mhegazy commentedon Jan 17, 2018
Anders Lassen (@Duckers) thanks for the suggestion. should be in tomorrow's
typescript@nextif you want to take if for a spin.Duckers commentedon Jan 17, 2018
Fantastic! Thanks a lot :D