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Hi,

I have a strange behavior of IntelliSense:
When I am inside a function and I start typing the auto-complete pops up, but nothing is preselected, so to accept I need to press e.g. the down arrow first.
Outside a function it works as expected and I can e.g. type "pu"+Space and it auto-completes to "public ".
Also at the "second level" it works again - e.g. if I want to type "$this->Xml->Root" inside my function it works fro Xml and Root, but not for $this, so I can/need to type $ + ArrowDown + Enter + ->X + ->R + Enter instead of $t + ->X + ->R + Enter. Same for local variables I need to type $v + ArrowDown + Enter to get $variable instead of $v + Enter.

Can I change that somehow or is this a bug?

regards

Hi,

This behaviour is by design. If you are typing "$...", IntelliSense has to allow you to type new variable name. By preselecting an existing variable, Visual Studio would autocomplete in cases you don't want to.

If you type a variable name without leading $, preselection works.

Also if there are more good matches in IntelliSense list, nothing is selected (only first good match is highlighted). This could be changed probably.

Thanks,

Ok, thanks for the information.
Typing it without the $ actually works and autocompletes including the $ - even if not as nice as I am used to with C# this will work for now.

Thanks!

P.S.: It would be great to have an option to disable this behaviour as I personaly would like it more to hit ESC to cancel autocompletion the few times I create new variables then to hit ArrowDown every time I use them (which happens MUCH more often)...

Thanks, this seams like useful option. Will be added in a future update.