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Make intellisense more context aware

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Pascal Bellerose on 18 Oct 2021 21:09:23

I believe one of the things I hate the most about intellisense in Power Query is that it show all objects/functions even those unrelated to the context.



Example:

I begin typing "Text." then it shows me everything. I must not put a dot at the end otherwise it looses context.

Any other programming language is using context to feed intellisense.

Here's what I expect from Intellisense:

If I type "Text.L" I expect Intellisense to show me all text function beginning with an 'L'.



Right now it does that but also shows a bunch of unrelated functions (it has lost context somehow and showing everything that has na 'L' in its subfunctions :disappointed_face:


and when I select the function "Text.Length", it writes this: "TextText.Length"... useless....





"Text.L" should be the context. It appears that the context is ".L" and just showing me Text.Length because I used it earlier.

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Eiminas Vegys on 17 Jan 2022 06:59:12

RE: Make intellisense more context aware

I would say this is not about making Power Query intellisense more context sensitive. It is about it not working at all.