import code completion is... too complete

[mousetraps]

Smoke testing, Windows

type import fmt, code completion appears

Pressing enter here now results in an extra "import fmt":

[ramya-rao-a]

The autocomplete for unimported packages shouldnt appear when part of import statements like this. This is a bug

[ramya-rao-a]

Same thing happens in the package statement as well

[ramya-rao-a]

Once microsoft/vscode#18485 is implemented, we can stop suggesting the unimported packages when the cursor is inside a string or comment or import block etc.

[ramya-rao-a]

Re-opening as the current fix will not work for multi line imports

[ramya-rao-a]

The latest update (0.6.56) to the Go extension has the fix for package statement and single line imports.

Multi line imports still has the issue

[ramya-rao-a]

Now that there is active development on an official language server for Go via gopls which will provide the auto-completion feature as well, there is no further planned work in the auto-completion feature that is coming directly out of the extension.

This issue is being closed in favor of having the auto-completion feature from the language server which will not have the same problem.

For more on language server integration with this extension, please see Go language server

To go a feature request for gopls, use the Go issue tracker