From f673529a3355cdd00062c873cd4fdd100f60a243 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleksey Kladov Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:23:15 +0300 Subject: explain that completion shouldn't do filtering --- crates/ra_analysis/src/completion.rs | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'crates/ra_analysis') diff --git a/crates/ra_analysis/src/completion.rs b/crates/ra_analysis/src/completion.rs index 739ca6ae8..ce777a771 100644 --- a/crates/ra_analysis/src/completion.rs +++ b/crates/ra_analysis/src/completion.rs @@ -28,7 +28,21 @@ pub use crate::completion::completion_item::{CompletionItem, InsertText, Complet /// incomplete and can look really weird. /// /// Once the context is collected, we run a series of completion routines which -/// look at the context and produce completion items. +/// look at the context and produce completion items. One subtelty about this +/// phase is that completion engine should not filter by the substring which is +/// already present, it should give all possible variants for the identifier at +/// the caret. In other words, for +/// +/// ```no-run +/// fn f() { +/// let foo = 92; +/// let _ = bar<|> +/// } +/// ``` +/// +/// `foo` *should* be present among the completion variants. Filtering by +/// identifier prefix/fuzzy match should be done higher in the stack, together +/// with ordering of completions (currently this is done by the client). pub(crate) fn completions( db: &db::RootDatabase, position: FilePosition, -- cgit v1.2.3