TypeScript and intellisense often randomly opens with "if" snippet selected ignoring any properties

Issue Type: Bug

Declare an interface with some properties. Create a function with parameter type of that interface.

Call function with object declared inside function call. Press CTRL + SPACE and note how usually the intellisense prompt will open approximately half way through the options with the “if” snippet selected. The user then has to manually scroll to the top of the list in order to see the properties expected.

interface Something {
    propertyOne: any,
    propertyTwo: any,
};

const someFunction = (something: Something) => {};

someFunction({ <focus here and press CTRL + SPACE> });

The user then has to scroll to the top:

I suggest that the intellisense menu scrolls to the very top always (why is it currently in the middle, for example). TypeScript has already inferred what properties are available, so it should be a case of fixing the default selected item in the intellisense menu.

VS Code version: Code 1.36.1 (2213894ea0415ee8c85c5eea0d0ff81ecc191529, 2019-07-08T22:59:35.033Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362

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(1 theme extensions excluded)

[ffxsam]

Also agree with @lloydjatkinson, "first" ought to be the default. The other default behavior is disorienting. And there’s still a bug here regarding how auto-suggest behaves when whitespace is added.

[jrieken]

@lloydjatkinson Do you have the editor.snippetSuggestions-setting configured?

This is because of the editor.suggestSelection-setting. The default is to preselect the least recent used item (unless any other item is selected). You can change the value of that setting to first to get out of this, not sure how to make the default better tho…