IntelliSense not selecting the first item in completion list

Hitting Ctrl+Space to bring up the IntelliSense completion list occasionally sets the cursor at the middle of the list, and not at the first item, I end up with a lot of StatefulWidget snippet/Undo combinations 😃

The behavior here is inconsistent [unless there’s some rule it follows that I can’t quite figure out], so here’s my attempt at explaining what I’ve seen:

For the following bit of code:

new Container(
          width: 300.0,
          height: 100.0,
          child: sparkline,
),

• Hitting return after child: sparkline and then ctrl+space to trigger a completion: Flutter stateful widget is selected.
• Moving up the list manually and selecting color then hitting return to complete it works as expected.
• Hitting return after this new color entry: Flutter stateful widget is selected.
• Selecting the previously entered color line and hitting backspace to clear it - then hitting ctrl+space to bring up intellisense: color is selected.

It seems to me that it always defaults to Flutter stateful widget the very first time the completion list is brought up for this class.

[Anas-Alhariri]

I found the SOLUTION!

The "editor.snippetSuggestions": is set to inline by default in the defaultSettings.json (the default settings of VS code). It seems that other VS code extensions that provide additional completion options; change this from inline to ‘top’ or something other than the default.

I went to my user settings of VSCode settings.json and changed it back to inline and everything works as expected. As a result, the original VSCode completion options came back to the top of the list and you may use Tab or Enter to select them.

Hope that my answer helps you 👍

Kind regards to all, Max (Anas Alhariri)

[DanTup]

This should be fixed in Code, but looks like it won’t ship until the April release (which is over a month away):

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/43429