Hi guys, sometimes I try something new to compare with already used packages, this weekend I wanted to try Eglot, however, I ran into a number of problems. One of them is autocomplete.
For example, when I write in vue, I want to autocomplete a watch function. This function is available in the following packages
import { watch } from 'vue';
import { watch } from 'fs';
import { watch } from 'fs/promises'
... etc
But when I use autocomplete in eglot I only see the first candidate - importing from the fs package. Is there any possibility or workaround to display all possible candidates?
Example of autocomplete with eglot
Example of autocomplete with lsp-mode
I also know that lsp-mode in conjunction with corfu has a similar problem, but it is impossible to solve it there as the authors of both packages think that the problem is not on their side 😅 Is the situation with eglot the same?
/u/hvis Would you consider changing this, since this way of deduplication in the frontend is quite inefficient? Given that the default completion UI demands that candidates are unique with respect to
equaland even deletesequalduplicates, the backend should better produce unique candidates.Deduplicating in the backend is not difficult, all that is needed is adding a suffix like (1), (2), (3), … In fact, this is what I am doing in my Consult package, which also is a backend and provides completion tables. For example for the
consult-linecommand I was facing the same issue, that candidates must be unique with respect toequaland not toeq.cc /u/JDRiverRun
I’d also worry that an eq test is a bit fragile, and could go mysteriously wrong if any step in the chain decided down the road to copy or duplicate the string.
Actually, I forgot how this works in most cases X-D.
And it happens through text properties, which backends add to their completion strings. Then the
annotationandkindoperations look them up.