Finding the best auto completion sorting

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2021-04-06 08:36, WebFreak001 wrote:

> that would certainly be nice but until they open it up to third party 
> developers it's impossible to actually add that using their extension. 
> You would need to roll your own and I think a simple list of commonly 
> used things in a given context would work just as well. (also sourced 
> from projects on GitHub)

There's still a lot of room for improvements without having to use AI to 
sort the list. For example, make it aware of the context:

long foo = bar.

If auto completion is triggered at the dot, it should prefer those 
methods/fields that return `long`, then `int` and so on.

There could also be some common cases that are hardcoded based on the 
surrounding context. For example:

int[] arr;

if (arr.

If auto completion is triggered at the dot, it should probably prefer 
the `empty` function and then the `length` property.

But these features would probably require more semantic analysis than 
DCD is capable of.

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/Jacob Carlborg