Improving Auto Suggestions

[amadeus]

I believe as part of the spec for Flow autocomplete, there's a way to have it suggest completions on objects when typing a dot. In this included example, when I type E, I immediately get a suggestion for Example, however when I complete it, then type a . I get nothing. In fact, typing a T still does not show any new options, I have to press <c-n> trigger the completion menu to show and then I get the proper completes:

example video

[prabirshrestha]

Make sure the refresh_pattern is set to refresh when . is typed. If you are using asyncomplete#sources#flow#get_source_options then it is automatically set for you.

function! asyncomplete#sources#flow#get_source_options(opts)
   return extend(extend({}, a:opts), {
       \ 'refresh_pattern': '\(\k\+$\|\.$\)',
       \ })
endfunction

I have noticed that flow autocompletion is very poor compared to typescript (which I use daily). This is not something that this plugin control. Another option would be to run it as a long running server but if the autocompletion engine for flow is the same then it would return the same results. I have actually been curious to try different flow plugins as well as different text editors and IDE to make sure that I'm implementing it correctly but haven't looked into it. If you do let me know if the results are different.

You can set let g:asyncomplete_log_file = expand('~/asyncomplete.log') to see the logs.

I also tried to play around with the language server protocol for flow with flow ide but I can't seem to pass the right arguments to start the server. If you find one let me know. https://github.com/prabirshrestha/asyncomplete-lsp.vim