Some IntelliSense suggestions only appear after pressing Ctrl+Space

Container(
  padding: 
)

In this Flutter example, after typing "padding: ", the first suggestion is class (the other suggestions are other reserved words), which totally doesn’t make sense in this context. But, after pressing Esc and then Ctrl+Space, it properly suggests EdgeInsets and EdgeInsetsDirectional. These suggestions should appear without having to press Ctrl+Space.

[DanTup]

Ok, I tracked this down. It turns out it was indeed fixed by the issue I discovered and fixed above (and since I was running the fixed version after that, I never saw it).

What’s happening is this:

You type padding: (without the space), and we send back the correct list of completions (as seem in your last screenshot, 2142 items). However then you press <space> and VS Code “helpfully” filters the list of completions by that space (I’ve no idea why it leaves the snippet ones, but that’s for another issue) - this is because for Performance reasons, VS Code will prefer to filter completions locally than go back to the server on every keystroke.

The change that I found and mentioned above, was to force VS Code to go back to the server on <space>. It was supposed to already do this, but there was a previous bug.

So, the issue is fixed for vNext. I’ve made a beta version if you’d like to install it in the meantime (I expect it to be pretty stable, and you’ll automatically be moved back to the stable release once it ships):

https://github.com/Dart-Code/Dart-Code/releases/tag/v2.22.0-beta.1

Download the .vsix file and run the Extensions: Install from VSIX command in VS Code, select the vsix file, then click the Reload button on the notification.

Let me know if you still have any issues, and thanks for your effort in chasing this down!

[malibayram91]

Here’s a GIF showing the issue. I can’t reproduce it 100% of the time.

Sure, I can test it.

I solved my problem with making disabled snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions in vscode settings.json "editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions": false