Is it possible to keep some inline suggestions?

[adrennhoff]

I am really enjoying my initial exploration with Positron but I was hoping to eliminate/reduce one thing.

Suppose I am creating a simple pandas dataframe using a dictionary (defining all in one line). I could do something like:

df = pd.DataFrame({
'Name' : ['Bob', 'Sally'],
'Age' : [25, 30]
})

With the inline suggestions, once I type "pd." it shows me options, including 'DataFrame'. I like this -- it's helpful.

But, once I type the quotes where I want to define my first column, the inline suggestion shows me two things: it offers a dropdown list of commands to select and it devotes a decent amount of space to showing me the syntax box for a Pandas data frame. I apologize if this is not clear. I've tried doing a screen capture but it does not show up well.

I guess what I'm saying is this: when I type the 'N' in 'Name', a dropdown shows me commands that begin with N. I also cannot get rid of the box showing the parameters in a pandas Dataframe (kind of like the top of the help file). I can get rid of that by turning off the inline suggestions, but then I use the autofill of getting a dataframe when I type "pd.D". I wish there was some sort of in between setting.

[isabelizimm]

Hi there 👋 Thanks for trying out Positron! I want to make sure I am understanding your experience correctly. In your example, this is what I would expect to see when trying to autocomplete a column name in a data frame. I'm demonstrating in the console, but the experience should be the same in a Python script or Jupyter Notebook.

Using df['Name'] column selection, my cursor is between the quotes

Using df.Name column selection, my cursor is at the end of the line

Is this what you are seeing? It sounds like maybe not, and that other information + boxes are populating. If not, can you provide the version of Positron and Python you're using?

[adrennhoff]

Thanks for your response. I was able to successfully use Print Screen to capture what I was saying. I will post the images below. For reference, I am using Python 3.11.5 and Positron 2024.09.0 (build 1). The inline suggestions for you are what I want but it seems to be inferring things when I create the data frame. When I start typing "Name" as the first column, that's where the suggestions/options first appear. You can't really tell from the image but I just typed the parentheses and "N" to type "Name" and you can see that it is offering me a dropdown list of suggestions.

In the next image, I have created 'Name' and now I am inside the brackets attempting to type the first name ("Bob").

[isabelizimm]

Oh gosh, that is not ideal at all 😨 I am able to replicate this behavior locally-- thank you so much for the screenshots! I'm going to promote this to an issue so we can find out a way to make this a nicer experience.

EDIT: closing this discussion in favor of #4644 to track progress 👍 The bug report is much appreciated!