Repository: vscode
Issue: Autocomplete is too aggressive in its default setting
Labels: suggest,under-discussion

Type: <b>Bug</b>

Visual Studio Code is great for code but it is a hard to work with when you need to write a text (such as the content of a html file). The autocomplete feature is too aggressive by default. The suggestions dialog pops up with every key pressed. It is hard to focus on writing when there is always a box with the suggestions next to the cursor whose content is changing quickly. Another issue is that moving to a next line with Enter does not always work - it offten adds a piece of random code instead (such as `<div>`). So you have to stop writing, delete the added code and press Enter again hoping that it move to the next line this time.

I have tried to turn off various settings which improved the situation a little bit it just mitigated the problem. For example, suggestion box was still opened but only on some keys pressed. For example writing an indefinite article "a" in text (which is very common), or even any English word starting with the letters "a" opened the dialog suggesting adding `<a href="">` tag instead. It would be far better if VS Code depended on the context and opened the suggestions by default only when the user writes "<" in html file (knowing that now one of the html tags will probably follow) and not when the user is writing a regular text in the html file.

After about 15 minutes, managed to fix it by turning off a setting named "Other" (in Text Editor / Suggestions / Quick Suggestions). Please, consider changing the defaults, because the current default behavior is not ideal for working with html files and finding the correct setting to fix it is not as easy as it could be.

VS Code version: Code 1.81.0 (6445d93c81ebe42c4cbd7a60712e0b17d9463e97, 2023-08-02T12:37:13.485Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044
Modes:

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|Load (avg)|undefined|
|Memory (System)|7.96GB (2.95GB free)|
|Process Argv|. --crash-reporter-id 45615635-cb4c-4d5d-93eb-cbc260b301be|
|Screen Reader|no|
|VM|67%|
</details><details><summary>Extensions (4)</summary>

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version
---|---|---
flutter-snippets|ale|3.0.0
dart-code|Dar|3.70.0
flutter|Dar|3.70.0
even-better-toml|tam|0.19.2


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