[c-fe]

VSCode - at least the described issues perfectly describe my experience with VSCode autocomplete.

[sime2009]

Matches my experience too.

I've done battle with the VSCode autocomplete many times over the years, trying to stop things from popping up automatically when I'm typing. My escape key has gotten more of a worked out over the years than a vim user on speed. I've twiddled every option in Settings but it has defeated me every time.

Yesterday was my latest battle and I think I have the upper-hand. I set the "millisecond delay until show" to some very large value and it seems to have worked. I can now typed without stuff flashing and popping up all the time.

I came back late yesterday to the computer. VSCode was still open, and showing one lonely autocomplete pop up on screen. pfff.. Time to add another zero to the delay setting I guess...

[c-fe]

I can relate to this very much. I think I will try out your solution.

[aordano]

I had the same issue until i took the time to check out the docs and config it to my taste, it offers a fair amount of customization.

Granted, you shouldn't need to fiddle with it to make it usable, but i really didn't mind spending some time to get to know better the tools i'm using every day.

[djaychela]

Can you share what you did? I find the number of options ins vscode bewildering.

[aordano]

You can check the default setting options and their meaning at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings

For the intellisense/suggestion options you can search for `editor.suggest`.

If that's not enough, you can arbitrarily modify the UI of the editor using this extension https://github.com/be5invis/vscode-custom-css

My config file is like 1500 LOC long and it's a bit messy, but in a quick search i found i severely limited the available options, changed the position of the box so it does not cover the text immediately underneath, changed some colors and put some suggestions as inline hints instead, among other stuff:

"editor.snippetSuggestions": "inline" "editor.suggestSelection": "first" "editorSuggestWidget.background": "#00000088" "editorSuggestWidget.foreground": "#ffffffff" "editorSuggestWidget.selectedBackground": "#9960FF33"

[djaychela]

Thanks, much appreciated!

[EugeneOZ]

Thanks. I was thinking about switching to VS Code from IDEA (because VS Code has evolved a lot, to my surprise), but looks like I need to wait a little more.