Debug Console: Accept Suggestions on Enter not working

[chopin2256]

Issue Type: Bug

1. Go to Debug Console
2. Type in any object with expected attributes
3. As attributes are displayed in intellisense, press enter
4. The command executes instead of autocomplete
5. Tab will autocomplete, enter will not.

VS Code version: Code 1.58.1 (2aeda6b, 2021-07-13T06:58:28.115Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
Restricted Mode: No

[dmiller-aon]

Per the release notes this was apparently done on purpose, as people would type what they wanted and hit return, only to have their input unexpectly replaced by the top-level suggestion. I was happy enough to hit the escape key to dismiss the Intellisense box when no correction was desired. The enter key still works to accept the suggestion in the main editing panel, so it is kind of awkward that it doesn't work in the Debug console. It would be nice to be able to control this behavior with a preference - I'm not sure I want to switch to using the Tab key everywhere. I certainly won't use different keystrokes in different panels!

[chopin2256]

Oh I see. I feel the same way, why switch from Enter to Tab if you are used to "Enter". As you suggest, maybe the team can make this an option then:

• Enter autocompletes for editor (yes / no) - which they have already
• Enter autocompletes for Debug Console (yes / no).

Simple! I'm going to leave this open, maybe it will get picked up!

[bededict-cumberbach]

Maybe similar to the editor option "editor.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "on", create a new option "debug.console.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "on" ?

Hope this will be added soon.

[ewerybody]

Hello! Yeah, I was just baffled by what happens to me! I never complete stuff with Tab
Why would the behaviour be different from the editor!?
I'd rather have things NOT executed on Enter anyway and have it Ctrl+Enter instead.

However: Just bending Enter to always execute feels really bad! There should be some room to customize things and at least optionally enable the old behaviour? I mean I also found myself having stupid suggestions put into the Debug Console via Enter but it was never a problem.

[isidorn]

Thanks for your feedback.
More details here on the motivation behind this change #108439 (comment)

I am open for adding an option in the future, but for now I prefer to keep this open to gather more feedback.

[isidorn]

@weinand also feels like a setting should be added. So let's assign this to August so we introduce a setting.
As @bededict-cumberbach suggested let's use the "debug.console.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "on" | "off". With "off" being the default

[isidorn]

To verify:

Set "debug.console.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "on", type something in the debug console, have some suggestions, press enter and make sure the suggestion is accepted and not evaluated.

Set "debug.console.acceptSuggestionOnEnter": "off", type something in the debug console, have some suggestions, press enter and make sure the current input is evaluated and the suggestion is ignored.

[ewerybody]

Nice! Maybe when this is back we can try to find solutions to mitigate the initial issue lead to this change. 🤔
Like said: I also had the problem with adding suggestions when I wanted only what I just typed ... But that can also happen in the text editor! So what makes it worse in the debug console??!

[eliyahu2]

That would be great to have an option to autocomplete on "Enter" ... Thanks!

[ewerybody]

Thanks again for the option! I feel super relieved now that I don't have to stress myself to remember pressing Tab pcheeew 😅