Extension APIs: suggest window is displayed despite not having any suggestions

[jpoon]

Context

For the VIM extension, we need to add a keybinding for every key input, do some stuff, then manually insert it into the active text editor. Despite inserting a character at the current position, it will hide the suggest/autocomplete window.

Problem

As you type and press a key that triggers an suggest window (e.g. .), regardless of the next character inserted via the active text editor API, it will close the suggest window.

We can manually trigger the suggest window following every insert via

vscode.commands.executeCommand("editor.action.triggerSuggest");

But this results in the suggest window showing up even if there is nothing to suggest. Is there a way to trigger the suggest window only if there are actually suggestions?

[ghost]

Update: vscode now has an editor.cursorStyle setting that allows a block value. The issue as written is still valid, since (AFAICS) there's no way to control it from the extensions API.

[ghost]

Sorry, that comment was supposed to be aimed at issue #561.

[alexdima]

@jpoon Please see https://github.com/alexandrudima/vscode-vim if you are authoring a vim emulation extension for VS Code. It delegates typing back to the VS Code editor when in insertion mode.