Disable suggestions filter

I want to have autocompletion that doesn’t necessarily require the completion item to start with the same letter as the word so far, e.g. I type foo and my CompletionItemProvider provides bar and baz. Since neither of these start foo no suggestions appear for the user. Basically I recognized that since the user typed foo they most likely meant either bar or baz.

[yoanthiebault]

@shmish111 I got exactly the same issue.

In case it would help you, here the workaround I used:

Monaco extracts the string matching your CompletionItem.range and keeps the suggestion only if its CompletionItem.label or CompletionItem.filterText match it. As I wanted to keep the label, I just defined CompletionItem.filterText attribute with the string matching CompletionItem.range.

With your previous example, we have:

{
      label: '"express"',
      kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Function,
      insertText: '"express": "*"',
      range: {
            startLineNumber: position.lineNumber,
            endLineNumber: position.lineNumber,
            startColumn: (position.column - 1), // this starts before the cursor
            endColumn: position.column,
      },
      filterItem: "y"
}

Hope it will help!

[shmish111]

Awesome, thanks @alexdima , I’ll try and get that done and post a link to it here, however that’s quite an undertaking for me as I have not used the VSCode API.