Add parenthesis after auto-completing methods

[agauniyal]

If I've a class A with doSomething() method defined on it and I do this -

A a;
a.doSo

it pops up doSomething as autocompletion. If I select it, it completes the word to a.doSomething. Notice that doSomething isn't a member var but a member method so correct behaviour should be a.doSomething() with cursor in b/w the parenthesis.

[bobbrow]

This is currently the expected behavior. We do not auto-insert parenthesis as part of auto-complete for functions. VS Code does not allow the extensions to insert code and move the cursor at the same time. If you would like to have this feature in VS Code, I would suggest opening an feature request for them to implement this. Here's the link to their issues list: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues

[agauniyal]

@bobbrow I had opened issue on vscode where they hint towards this already being possible!

[dbaeumer]

@bobbrow this is currently possible using snippets which let you control the cursor position.

[bobbrow]

Ok then. We can add this to our backlog.

[sean-mcmanus]

Our latest 0.21.0-insiders3 triggers completion when ( is used. Is that good enough or is adding the () on Enter/Tab/Click, still desired?

Setting C_Cpp.updateChannel to "Insiders" is another way to get the update.