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9499 :: Troubles with autocompletion with VSC and third party packages

• EnteryName (orginal) [2022-09-29T16:41:18+02:00] view original

  Using VSC and telebot I cannot see the auto-completion for the types. It does not give me errors, but when I type code I have to go through the src provided by github because I'm unable to get any hint. I'm using nim 16.6 and I've both installed telebot (otherwise it would give me an error) and I created a binary with nimble. I'm using the extension provided by nimsaem

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• rockcavera (orginal) [2022-09-29T22:40:14+02:00] view original

  unfortunately the nimsaem plugin has some problems. This issue is already known for autocompletion. In my case, I found that the plugin's autocompletion problem is due to the fact that it only works when you are working in a VSC project "Folder". If you open a random .nim file, autocompletion will not work.

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• samsamros (orginal) [2022-10-01T17:50:50+02:00] view original

  I have the same issue with that package. Everything works fine and catches the errors ok, but autocomplete does not seem to work. I also added a config.nims to my working directory with:

  switch("define", "ssl") switch("threads", "on") switch("define", "release")

  This helps with the SslError highlighting in VSC. In my case, my best guess is that it is running nimsuggest and nim from the /usr/bin directory and not the nimble directory. I haven't found direct documentation (and I've been to lazy to scour the forum to see if any kind soul already went through this and documented it). I use debian and the version it installs by default cannot install the telebot code from nimble, but when you use the nimble directory and compile it using the ~/.nimble7bin/nim then it works just fine. I looked at my ps output searching for nimsuggest while running VSC:

  localho+ 305032 0.7 0.5 300028 191332 ? Sl 10:35 0:02 /usr/bin/nimsuggest --epc --v2 TELEG.nim

  as you can see it is running the nimsuggest version in /usr/bin, which defaults to the version in apt: Nim Compiler Version 1.4.2 [Linux: amd64]

  whereas my nimsuggest in ~/.nimble/bin is Nim Compiler Version 1.7.1 [Linux: amd64]

  I think it's just a question of binding or exporting working directories. I just haven't gotten around to reading about it and trying it out. Also, the telebot code is so wonderful that reading it is like going through melting butter in a pan. Shoutout to the dev and contributors for their awesome work!

  Hope someone who's run into this in the past (and was able to work around it) can give me a clue? I don't know if this is the case with you EntryName, but I hope this helps you (or anyone) :)

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