Add more sophistication to autocomplete for related types

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
developer-experience, tooling

Research direction

Start with the language server's autocomplete path and the handling of AST node names. Define the list of similar names for common AST nodes, then determine when proposals such as NewExpr and CallExpr should appear while typing InvokeExpr. Done means both checklist items are addressed and the related suggestions work appropriately.

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Description

Complexity: Medium enhancement VSCode

For example, we should support alternate names for similar AST nodes. When typing InvokeExpr, a user may want intellisense for NewExpr and CallExpr.

  • determine a list of similar names for common AST nodes.
  • augment the language server to propose them when appropriate.
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
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Avg merge
2d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
29

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