VSCode autocomplete/intellisense for strings

Question

While working with a PHP or JavaScript file in sublime, if I type the following code:

$test = "Scott";
If($test == null) {
    $test2 = "Scott"
}

When I typed in “$test2 = ‘Sc...” Sublime would autocomplete “Scott” since it was a word it found as a string in the current document scope.

However, when I do the same test in VSCode, it doesn’t pick it up or offer any suggestions. Is this possible in VSCode? I have already turned on the quicksuggestions to all true in the preferences. I am not sure what else I could do here or if there is an additional plugin that I need to download. Thanks!

Answer 1

Like this?

My settings:

intelephense extension enabled

{
  "editor.quickSuggestions": {
    "other": true,
    "comments": false,
    "strings": true
  },
  "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": true,
  "php.suggest.basic": false
}

Answer 2

These are word based suggestions. They are controlled by the editor.wordBasedSuggestions setting.

However, word base suggestions will only show up when no valid language based suggestions are found (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/21611). JS should do the right thing inside strings here:

But the built-in php language support will still return language based suggestions inside strings, which is why the word based suggestions do not show up