Questions tagged [intellisense]

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vs2019 downloading Intellisense Index

I am on VS 2019 Enterprise. Just updated about two weeks ago. Background tasks are forever showing "Downloading Intellisense index for nuget.org" I am behind a firewall, so connecting to nuget.org for anything is not going to happen. Is there…
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Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense choosing the wrong item

This minor annoyance has started to really irk me lately. When coding, Intellisense often selects the wrong item from the autocomplete menu. This behaviour is common, but not completely consistent. It's been happening for about a week or two.…
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How to make Visual Studio IntelliSense to not automatically complete a word, do this only by TAB key?

Sometimes IntelliSense behavior is very annoying. For example, typing in c# editor "Random[SPACE]" resulted "Random3DDataGenerator" in my code when the is no "using System;" in the code. I had to press [CTRL]+[Z] to return back the "Random" word.…
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Visual Studio Code for Mac IntelliSense "Console" not working

Microsoft announced today that they have released Visual Studio Code for Mac, Linux, and Windows. I am trying to use IntelliSense for the keyword "Console" but nothing is showing up. I have tried using Ctrl + Space to manually pull up the…
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VBA: show intellisense without pressing Ctrl+Space?

I've had a good search if this is possible and I doubt it but can anyone confirm: is there any way to have the IDE provide intellisense in the same way as say Visual Studio in the .Net family i.e. it's automatic, no need to press Ctrl+Space for a…
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How do you reset the Python Parser without closing VS Code?

When editing python files in VS Code, the parser will sometimes start mis-identifying parser errors in code. The editor still works, Interactive Python window still runs the code, etc. Example: There is no actual code error here, but the parser…
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Powershell ISE 3.0 Intellisense for other programming languages

I really love using Powershell ISE - something about it makes me want to work with it; everything just fits together well, and it is smooth. Also I love the way intelligent autocomplete is integrated - it just feels clean and smooth and…
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How to disable LESS intellisense in Visual Studio 2013?

I hate that VS intellisense tries to autocomplete nested selectors as attributes. How can I disable just this feature for LESS? -OR- How can I disable LESS intellisense entirely?
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Can I update pycharm intellisense for python?

I want to know if it's possible to update Pycharm intellisense for python which doesn't care about capital or normal letters? It's a pain in the neck to try both each time. Currently I'm using pycharm 3.0 and python 2.7.4
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How to prevent VS Code from treating the tab-key input as textual-input/tab-stop-insertion, but instead solely as auto-completion-/navigation-trigger?

Preamble: I would like to use VS Code whenever i can, if i could (mainly for the reason that it is cross-platform and the only completely customizable/hackable GUI editor on all major platforms). One issue although breaks my workflow repeatedly;…
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How to get Visual Studio like IntelliSense completion in Visual Studio Code?

Let's say I am typing import matplotlib.pyplot. In Visual Studio, if I press space once the dropdown appears, it autocompletes the pyplot part and inserts a space after. Or when the name of a function appears in the dropdown and I press space, the…
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Is there a terminal that has something similar to intellisense?

I absolutely love Intellisense when writing code in Visual Studio Is there a terminal app that has a similar feature that could popup a GUI of suggestions for command or parameter completion based on the context of what i am doing or already typing?
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unwanted code hints (prettify.css) in vscode

where are these coming from I have disabled all extensions. I am pretty sure that there is no prettify.css or base.css among my project files and yet I am still getting these code hints. How can I get rid of them? Unwanted code hints from…
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Outlining while modifying a multistatement function in SQL Server Management Studio

When coding in an empty query window, IntelliSense gives me useful collapse/expand buttons on each BEGIN-END statement to hide underlying code, apparently called "outlining". However, when I rightclick on a large multistatement tabular function to…
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VS Code Intellisense doesn't work with DOMDocument extension

I'm working with PHP through Visual Studio Code and I need to create some XML documents. I've seen that in PHP 7.X there is and extension called DOMDocument that seems really simple and useful. The problem is that Intellisense doesn't show any…
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