Finding the best auto completion sorting

James Blachly james.blachly at gmail.com
Thu Apr 8 01:38:22 UTC 2021


On 4/7/21 9:35 PM, James Blachly wrote:
> On 4/5/21 6:50 PM, WebFreak001 wrote:
>> Hi all, there have been sorting improvements made in serve-d which 
>> will affect how user's auto completion will look like when having 
>> broad matches. [(1)]
>>
>> To get a better starting point how you prefer it I would like to do a 
>> survey where everyone sends in their preferred sorting rules.
>>
>> For this please visit https://completion.webfreak.org/ and submit your 
>> preferred sorting for this broad auto complete case.
>>
>> In reality not all types can even be shown at once, (e.g. both 
>> `opBinary` and `init` at the same time would be impossible) but for 
>> the general case this is helpful in finding what users expect.
>>
>> [(1)]: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d/pull/127
> 
> These may be standard VSCode icons, but is there a key somewhere? The 
> semantic meaning is not always clear, and that would influence my sort 
> order (and apparently did influence sort order of other respondents 
> based on the results link you shared)
> 
> Anyway this is an extremely attractive UI and way to present/query this 
> data -- great work
> 

Self reply:
Icon key here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/intellisense



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