[Bug]: Intellisense does not recognise e.g., "begin" as a valid completion

[steinhh]

Current Behavior

When typing (at least some) control words such as "begin", intellisense does not recognize/suggest the word as a valid completion even after typing out the whole word:

This it does with in-scope variable names:

This may not seem like a big deal, "just don't use the intellisense suggestion", but: in other languages the combination of intellisense + copilot is so good that I've had to bind accept-suggestion to ENTER, in order to prevent repetitive strain injury from all the tabbing to accept suggestions. What happens to me now is that I type "begin" and hit enter, resulting in the acceptance of a gibberish suggestion...

Expected Behavior

Intellisense completion should be aware of control words, suggesting those as the default when the entire word has been typed in.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

See "current behaviour"

Failure Logs

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Operating System

• macOS (Intel x86_64)
• macOS (ARM64)
• Linux
• Windows

IDL Version

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Additional Information

@martinwiesmann

[steinhh]

Hmm... it seems if I hit backspace/delete to delete the n at the end of begin, then type it back, there's no suggestion any more and I can safely hit enter, escaping the need to hit escape (another RSI risk...), yay! Also, if in the middle of writing "begin" hit arrow-right (taking me to the start of the next line) and then arrow-left back to the same position as before, when I continue typing the top suggestion becomes "Begin-end statement" which is ok. Not exactly a fix, but a data point :)

[znorman-harris]

I started to work at tweaking our auto-complete options for block statements and have a first pass working for if-then-else.

I'm going to re-implement our snippets to be much smarter and appear in the auto-complete dialog.

In addition to begin-end not being found, there's also some inconsistencies where blocks wouldn't appear to add in. I think this had to do with how we provided snippets to VSCode.

It's going to take a week or two to migrate this all to our language server, but should hopefully be a much better user experience overall.

If you get a chance, hopefully the if-then-else works more like you expect which is what we will implement for loops and other block statements too.