CompletionItem.preselect seems to be ignore with MRu selection

[dbaeumer]

Steps to reproduce (pthyon code)

• type os.
• correctly preselects path
• pick pipe
• delelete pipe
• open code complete

Observe: pipeis selected although path is preselected.

[dbaeumer]

FYI @vivlimmsft

[jrieken]

That's most likely because of "editor.suggestSelection": "recentlyUsed". Try first (which now actually means default).

[vivlimmsft]

I didn't have editor.suggestSelection set at all, it seems to default to recentlyUsed.

It works fine with first (and in fact that's a workaround I'm using for development) but I was expecting preselect, when set, to take effect regardless of the value of editor.suggestSelection. I was hoping that preselect would mean that I wouldn't need to write "editor.suggestSelection": "first" into user settings for my feature to work.

[jrieken]

Yeah, recentlyUsed is the default and it's a fair question about what should win preselect or recentlyUsed. I think that recentlyUsed should win because it's a recording of actual user-choice. However, given that we now have the preselect-feature we can think about changing the default to first... Tho, care must be taken because those changes often cause a big stir.

As a language extension author you can always contribute a default value for an existing setting, e.g you can say "for python the value is "editor.suggestSelection": "first"". See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/extension-points#_contributesconfigurationdefaults

[jrieken]

Closing this as designed