AutoSuggest/IntelliSense shows templates where they are not applicable

[httpdigest]

After installing these wonderful snippets, they are now being suggested almost everywhere (except when using the 'dot-into' operator on a type), such as when trying to list the properties of an object.
Where I noticed it was when "ctrl+space listing" the properties of the @Component metadata object.

What I concretely did was to use the ng2-controller template to create a new controller. Then, because I am new to AngularJS, I moved the keyboard cursor into the argument object of the @Component call to see what else (except for moduleId, selector and templateUrl) was available there. So I hit "ctrl+space" and was overwhelmed with the code templates also showing there, where I guess, they would not be valid.

[johnpapa]

we'd need to be able to apply context to do this level. @chrisdias may know if this is on the VS Code teams radar.

[chrisdias]

@aeschli @jrieken any ideas?

[jrieken]

We don't expose scopes/context that is derived from a TM grammar because of their varying qualities and because that would lead to feature that are tight coupled with one specific grammar.

For smarter snippets we recommend to implement a CompletionItemProvider which for instance can use a syntax tree to figure out what the best snippets for a certain position are. The drawback however is that those snippets are computed dynamically cannot be invoked from tab-completion (yet)

[johnpapa]

closing due to inactivity