Autocomplete

[lhstrh]

It looks like autocomplete doesn't work as well in VS Code as it does in Epoch. The scope of suggestions (triggered by ctrl + space) appear to be generic and statistical rather than grammar-based. In Epoch, only elements that make sense syntactically are suggested.

[petervdonovan]

I would be hesitant to develop this feature using XText. I realize that it will probably be multiple years before we drop XText, but within a year we are likely to have the LDS forwarding requests to a non-XText language server that is not written in Java or Xtend. That might provide a better opportunity to implement such features.

[lhstrh]

That makes sense. I also tagged @a-sr who might be aware of a low-effort way of making this work with Xtext (the functionality is already there, it just needs to be leveraged in the language server). If there is such way, a quick fix would be welcome so that we have something decent to work with in the meantime.

[soerendomroes]

You should check whether the ContentAssistService or IdeContentProposalProvider is called by setting breakpoints in there or exists.