Autocomplete after open brackets replaces entire line of code

[vsfeedback]

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[severity:It bothers me. A fix would be nice] [regression] [worked-in:Visual Studio 2019 v. 16.11.6] Visual Studio Community 2022 Current v. 17.0.0 (Windows) in conjunction with the Python extension contains the following bug: If auto-completion / IntelliSense is used after open brackets, not only the word is completed and inserted, but the entire line of code is deleted and overwritten with the word.

Simple example: testword = "This is a test." print (testw ... #use of IntelliSense leads to ==> testword

The bug does not occur in Visual Studio Community 2019 (Python) and Visual Studio Code (Python).

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Original Comments

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Original Solutions

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[AdamYoblick]

I'm able to repro this in VS2022. The entire line doesn't get replaced, BUT the opening parens does, which is definitely a bug.

[Stroichik]

So, after 3 months its still not fixed?

[AdamYoblick]

Hi @Stroichik ! Unfortunately, our team has limited capacity at the moment, and we have to prioritize our backlog accordingly.

We appreciate your patience. We also welcome contributions fyi 😄

[Stroichik]

Can't help you on that, since i`m just learning basics. Was very surprised when i found this bug in VS22, so had to switch to other IDE to continue learning Python without accidently erasing whole lines of code. So u dont really want someone like me to accidently commit on release branch :)

[MartinLith]

H! Any news on this, it´s quite annoying and it makes you stay away from the intellisense/autocomplete (which it seems not like at all).

[AdamYoblick]

No updates yet, as I’ve been working on python 3.10 support. Our capacity has been a little low lately, so bug fixes are taking longer than anticipated. My apologies.

This is the next bug I will look at once all the 3.10 kinks have been worked out. Thanks :)

[MartinLith]

Hi Adam, thanks you for your answer!

No problem! i´m glad to hear that this is next up and i´m looking forward to a solution.

Martin

[AdamYoblick]

I believe this is an LSP client bug in Visual Studio. I've created an internal bug to track this at https://devdiv.visualstudio.com/DevDiv/_workitems/edit/1528198.

[AdamYoblick]

Sorry my last comment wasn't clear. Reproing this bug is blocked by another bug which is preventing variables from showing up in the intellisense completion list. That bug doesn't belong our team, so we're waiting on a fix from the VS team before I can continue with this one. Apologies for the delay.

[marcinchady]

I'm on version 17.1.3 and the completion lists populate no problem. The bug is still present, i.e. selecting an item from the list eats the closing bracket and the following operator, if there is one. See the attached video.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/51301749/165670452-10bf2208-4834-49ca-b014-29b6c48fc384.mp4

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[VintageStep]

After looking for workarounds I ended here, I have both of the problems presented by vsfeedback and marcinchady, when using autocomplete function inside a list, tuplet or set the end of the bracket get deleted if there are quotes or doubles quotes those get deleted too. As for inserting arguments in functions hitting autocomplete overwrite the previous characters. I hope your team can address this bug soon, at least now I know that is something I just have to bear with instead of a feature I didn't set up correctly.

[AdamYoblick]

Thank you for the information everyone. I've spoken with the Visual Studio team and this is actually happening in some other languages as well, so we believe this is not a PTVS-specific bug. I'm going to create a bug for the VS team to look at. In the meantime, if this happens to anyone else, be sure to create a feedback ticket through VS. Thanks :)

[SpookyWookyMan]

Any updates on this? This bug has still not been fixed and while I love Visual Studio, I have no choice but to change to another IDE where the autocomplete feature actually works

[AdamYoblick]

Apologies, there was some confusion around where this bug actually is and who owns it. This is my current task and I will get it fixed one way or another 😄

[AdamYoblick]

We looked into this further and the bug seems to be in an external team. We've spoken to the team and the bug now has proper ownership. I will stay on top of it to make sure it gets fixed.

[az5078]

And..... This is not solved yet......?

[TheRealQuantam]

Gotta say given that IME IntelliSense hasn't ever worked right with Python I'm not holding my breath :P At least this (new) IntelliSense problem is better than the old one. The old one could easily result in invalid variable names that you don't catch until the code fails, while this one is usually immediately obvious when the line changes drastically.

[JamieSimWin]

I've been having this issue for a couple of weeks and i have been trying to solve the issue. This is the only information i can find online about this issue.. which still isn't fixed.....

[AdamYoblick]

Hi all, this is a Visual Studio fix, not a PTVS one. Their team had some urgent fixes they had to make that had higher priority than this one. They will be working on this for a future release of Visual Studio. I will reply back when it gets fixed 😄

[ReineWahrheit]

Currently having this issue on a fresh install of Visual Studio 2022 in all languages, mostly just tried the C languages. I can't even edit anything without having to retype the entire line of code because everything gets typed over instead of shifted. Any updates when this might be fixed?

[bluehatgeek]

The issue is still there. I am currently on a fresh install of VS 2022 and it is still happening.

[AdamYoblick]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to reproduce this locally on the latest internal build of visual studio and I can't repro it anymore. It seems the visual studio team has fixed the issue. See below:

The version of VS I'm on is 17.6 Preview 2. 17.6 will be available to the general public on 5/16.

[hitarthdoc]

Checked in Visual Studio Preview 17.5 with ONLY the python development workload and tested it. Could not repro this issue.

Install Details,

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Preview Version 17.5.0 Preview 6.0 VisualStudio.17.Preview/17.5.0-pre.6.0+33402.96

[CaligoLab]

@AdamYoblick Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (64-bit) - Current Version 17.4.4 (Win) Python Autocomplete messes up constantly. Picks up variables to suggest from time to time only, removes pieces of code around. Here's a simple example:

https://github.com/microsoft/PTVS/assets/44836679/88bed1c6-7489-49c7-a213-3aa4c25aa113

[AdamYoblick]

@CaligoLab Thank you for reporting this. I will try to repro with the latest version of VS again. 👍

[AdamYoblick]

@CaligoLab The version you reported this issue in is 17.4.4. I tested previously in 17.6 and couldn't repro this. I just tested again in 17.9 and also couldn't repro it.

Someone else in the comments tested in 17.5 and also couldn't repro.

So I believe this issue is fixed. Can you please try to update your Visual Studio to at least 17.5 or 17.6 and try again?

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