Variable IntelliSense completion in quotation marks

[valdearg]

System Details

• Operating system name and version: Windows 10 1803
• VS Code version: 1.23.0
• PowerShell extension version: 1.7.0
• Output from $PSVersionTable:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.17134.1
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.17134.1
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

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code -v

1.23.0
7c7da59c2333a1306c41e6e7b68d7f0caa7b3d45
x64

$pseditor.EditorServicesVersion
code --list-extensions --show-versions
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Issue Description

When using a string with a variable in, the variable name does not auto-complete with IntelliSense like when outside the string.

For example you have the following code:

$var_test_1 = "This is a variable"
Write-Host "Test string $var_test_1"

What I would expect would be when I start typing the $var section that I would be given the created variable name.

When outside the quotes the variable name is provided. E.g.

$var_test_1 = "This is a variable"
Write-Host "var: " $var_test_1

If I just enter $v I'm provided with the full name $var_test_1

[joeyaiello]

Validated that this is a legitimate bug, and doesn't occur unless you're in VS Code.

[bland328]

I, too, would love to see this fixed, as well, and hoping to cover the case mentioned above...

this_autocompletes="$this_does_not"

...as well as this case, in which the variable name is within both brackets and double quotes...

this_autocompletes="${this_does_not}"

...not to mention this case that I run into plenty when building strings:

this_autocompletes="But this one '${does_not}'..."

Thanks for looking at this!

[moymike]

I'm Powershell Preview 2020.2.0 and this is still an issue.

[rjmholt]

Oh I just realised this isn't a completion bug, it's a completion trigger issue; it you press Ctrl+Space, you get the intellisense.

We need some way of telling VSCode to trigger a completion, but I'm not sure if that's possible within strings. We'll have to look into it

[andyleejordan]

Hi all, I looked into this and it's actually a VS Code setting. To enable this, you need to go to the setting editor.quickSuggestions and then for the strings item set its value to on, then it works as desired. Cheers!

[valdearg]

Ah, that is indeed the solution. Thanks for this!