Auto complete preselects obscure method before basic language constants (like false)
This may have been asked many times. When entering code, my intent in the pic is to return false;, here are the autocomplete suggestions I get:
Can I force PhpStorm to preselect false before all other obscure (aka much more infrequent targets)? That would improve (much) my user experience.
Sorry for dumb question, I could not find it here.
PhpStorm 2016.1.2, OSX 10.11.5
FYI : I asked the same on SO, and followed all the suggested holy rituals and voodoo incantations, before posting here. No beans.
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The list of suggestions is sorted dynamically based on the functions usage - we can't tune it the way we want.
`False` should get on a first place once IDE counts amount & frequency of its usages sufficient.
@Dmitry : lets make this simple. I NEVER select fbird_* , fastcgi_*.
IMNSHO the sort should on semantic distance from the declaration before any other. Language intrinsics are distance 0.
And now, how about some real help Dmitry ? how (and where) can i suppress whatever garbage history PhpStorm uses to conclude that i use fastcgi_* more often than false ?
errr ... I am curious, just asking if you ever coded in PHP. Do you use any library symbol more often than language intrinsics ?????
By the way I have totally crazy other examples to show you from that project. Trust me, it is a bug.
One more comment : even if i buy into 'sort on frequency of usage' i would point out that based on your statement, the sort is ok. What really (really) gets me is that the **preselected** pick is the one i never use.
Unfortunately there's no way to filter this out (at least now), see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-5731 for details (don't forget to vote for it).
As for an unused function being preselected in a suggestion list: you can submit this as a bug report at http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WI#newissue=yes or describe your problem in https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-31973 - this thread is partially discussing the same problem.
Added new bug in Youtrack : https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-32340
Still, you have not answered : how can i make PhpStorm 'forget' the sort order and start from fresh in a project ?
It's IDE-wide, based on a file extension. So generally by wiping all IDE-specific settings. I'll check with a team if this can be done without deleting all the caches/configs.
Running File > Invalidate Caches / Restart ...should reset a completion list for current project.
For the benefit of onlookers : work in progress here, this will be fixed (yeahhh!!)
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-32340