Option to prevent deprecated things from showing up in intellisense suggestions

[Tyler-Murphy]

I'd like a setting to optionally prevent deprecated things from showing up in intellisense suggestions.

For example, I'd like a way to prevent assert.equal from being suggested here, so that I don't use it despite a non-deprecated version being available.

My linter can catch it, but it'd be even nicer never to see the deprecated option.

There are several documentation systems that use the @deprecated tag:

• JSDoc: https://jsdoc.app/tags-deprecated.html
• TSDoc: https://github.com/microsoft/tsdoc/blob/c5279394fa17bd6aa20ae711563b7923d44f822d/tsdoc/src/details/StandardTags.ts#L54-L58
• JavaDoc: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/javadoc/deprecation/deprecation.html#javadoc_tag
• Yard (for Ruby): https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/yard/file/docs/Tags.md#deprecated

Other systems use different, similar tags.

I'm not sure if this is an issue for the VSCode core, or for something language-specific.

[Tyler-Murphy]

Sorry if this is a duplicate or is already possible. There are enough issues here and questions/answers on Stack Overflow that it's hard to be confident.

This issue is related: #50972

[mjbvz]

Not showing deprecated suggestions can be implemented by individual language extensions today (not striking out but #50972 tracks that). Adding @jrieken just to see this is something we want better VS Code api support for in some way

Otherwise, we can track this as a feature request for js/s

[jrieken]

I'd say this is a dupe of #50972 and it would be us adding some API flag and then allows users to configure how the suggest UX is handling that flag

[jrieken]

/duplicate of #50972

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[Tyler-Murphy]

Okay, that makes sense.

What does "js/s" mean?

[zardoy]

@mjbvz, is it possible to add a setting like editor.suggest.showDeprecated, so I can disable it to prevent deprecated from showing up in suggestions list?

[jrieken]

Verify that the setting "editor.suggest.showDeprecated" exists and that it filters deprecated elements from IntelliSense