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This PR fixes an issue where terminal completions in remote scenarios (e.g., WSL) were incorrectly filtered out due to using the local platform's path separator instead of the remote extension host's path separator.
Key changes:
- Detects path separator from completion labels coming from the extension host
- Passes the detected path separator to
TerminalCompletionItemfor proper path normalization - Removes hardcoded reliance on local platform path separator (
isWindowsandsep)
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
| src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminalContrib/suggest/browser/terminalSuggestAddon.ts | Changes _pathSeparator from hardcoded sep to detected value from completion labels; passes path separator to TerminalCompletionItem constructor; adds null checks before using path separator |
| src/vs/workbench/contrib/terminalContrib/suggest/browser/terminalCompletionItem.ts | Adds optional pathSeparator parameter to constructor; replaces isWindows check with explicit path separator comparison; defaults to Unix-style paths when separator is undefined |
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Possible to write a test for this?
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Debugging showed the completions were getting created correctly, but then were filtered out.
This was happening because we were using the local path sep instead of the one from the extension host. The fix is to pass
pathSepintoTerminalCompletionItem.fixes #286155