pluggable-autocomplete README

Ever find yourself writing stringly typed values that you wish you could autocomplete from some other data source? Well now you can.

This plugin lets you write .js files that fetch data into your built in list of autocomplete symbols.

Features

• Read completion values from a json file

  in your settings set "pluggableautocomplete.json" to a filepath and ensure the file is formatted correctly:

  {
    "items": [{
      "prefix": "", // optional: appears like e.g. "prefixvalue"
      "value": "", // required
      "comment": "", // optional: describes the value, appears as a comment
      "sortToken": "" // optional: instead of sorting by the "value", sort by this text. sorts as strings, not as numbers
    }] 
    // the file is slurped upon activation. do not make the file too big, preferably kilobytes to only a few megabytes.
  }
  

  note that ~ is supporting in file paths, but was only tested on a linux system.

• Write custom data extractor and drop it into .pluggable-autocomplete in your workspace

• Use custom data

Requirements

Write yourself a plugin! Pro-tip - use the command pallette to run Create Sample Pluggable Autocomplete to init a sample plugin in your workspace.

Extension Settings

No settings yet! Maybe we could customize the plugin directory...?

Known Issues

• no known issues yet! Open an issue on https://github.com/Sammons/pluggable-autocomplete

• Security note: this invokes files in the .pluggable-autocomplete folder, and as such they should be write-protected once you finish writing your plugin

Release Notes

[0.0.1]

• Initial release

[0.0.3]

• Add contrib for postgres columns

[0.1.0]

• Add json file support, support for more file types

[1.0.0]

• Remove the name top level value.
• Stop separating prefix and value with "." (instead you should do "prefix." if you want that)
• Include the prefix in the completion.

Enjoy!

License (MIT)

Copyright 2021 Ben Sammons

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