Does the watch view support auto completions?

[weinand]

From @yaohaizh on April 8, 2018 14:37

In the debug view, the auto completions is supported in the debug console, but it doesn't support in the watch view when typing expression for evaluation.

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode-debugadapter-node#171

[isidorn]

For this the watch expression input box would have to be an editor. Backlog

[isidorn]

Assigning to may to investigate what would it take that the watch input is an editor

[isidorn]

Willl not happen in august moving out to on deck. Andre move back to an appropraite milestone when needed.

[entlicher]

Can this issue be considered for implementation please?
For usability point of view it'd be good to have a completion in the watch field, similar to existing completion in breakpoint's condition.

[RikkiGibson]

Hi @roblourens, would you review a PR to fix this issue if one were submitted?

[Luhaib-j]

This feature is very important, as all modern browsers support this feature in there debugging dev tools, can you please add this feature as it is still not implemented?

[JaneySprings]

Any updates?

[gitter-me]

Its 2025 now and this is (unfortunately) still in the backlog (The original issue microsoft/vscode-debugadapter-node#171 is from 2018).
This is one of the features that are almost invisible, but would improve the quality of life for many developers.

(I don't know how complicated the implementation would be, my dream solution would be the way Jetbrains handles it, in their tools every input/text (from the debugger to code navigation) is like a the main text editor with autocomplete, syntax highlighting and multicursor support)