Autocomplete is inaccurate due to alphabetical sorting of suggestions

[KoBeWi]

Basically this:

I wanted to autocomplete Vector3, but writing Vec3 suggests me PoolVector3Array. This happens when you write letters in different order (in example above I'm skipping "tor"). Autocomplete ignores how you started writing a word and sorts everything alphabetically. I'd expect it to actually select Vector3 in above case.

Another example:

Actually for this one writing "minf" would work, but still, autocomplete could better predict what I'd like to write. I doubt anyone would start RemoteTransform this way.

Tested in 3.1 alpha.

For comparison, here are VS Code results for these completions:


(btw, see how VS Code highlights actual written letters, rather than just the beginning of the suggested words like it is in Godot. But I suppose I could create separate issue for that)

[rokasv]

Vec3 into PoolVector3Array is excruciatingly painful (still in 3,1 RC1)

[KoBeWi]

Yeah, the linked PR fixes it, but adds some more stuff that made it too big, so it's not merged yet :/

[rokasv]

Just realized this is not marked as a bug.
That's a shame, since the code editor and export features are the only thing I use in the engine. 😞

[me2beats]

Still in 3.2.3
Why not a bug tho?

As you can see, completion suggests superfluous results.

this is quite annoying and slows down the scripting.

[Calinou]

Why not a bug tho?

It's working in a less than ideal manner, but it's technically working as intended. Please don't pressure contributors to label everything as a bug 🙂
Otherwise, we might as well not have bug and enhancement labels…

[KoBeWi]

Closing in favor of this proposal: godotengine/godot-proposals#4189