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Suggestion not showing for Symbol

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the behavior from the TypeScript snippets in the issue using the JavaScript and TypeScript Nightly extension. Inspect the repository's TypeScript TextMate grammar files and determine whether the missing Symbol suggestions are represented there; done means the reported suggestions appear as expected.

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Description

JavaScript and TypeScript Nightly version:

Code

// Please include a code snippet that demonstrates the issue
// EX 1

let sym = Symbol() 

// Suggestion for **Symbol** is not showing

// EX 2

Object.getOwnPropertySymbols

// Suggestion for **getOwnPropertySymbols** is not showing 

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