[Feature Request] Can we have a predicate to decide if a completion popup should be displayed?

[lonely-lockley]

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Description

When we develop our own code completion implementing the CompletionItemProvider interface we are bound to a set of trigger characters that make the popup to be shown. This in some cases is not really convenient as the popup shows in the wrong context. For example I'm interested in displaying autocompletion in case of identifier usage and not to show it when declaring one. While searching the internet I was able to find some "dirty" suggestions like sending events. See #1764.

Anyway, can we have a predicate function instead or in addition to the triggerCharacters array? It could look like this:

    triggerPopup(model, position, context): boolean

Then we can have an access to model to do some parsing and make a decision based on last token. We have a context to find out which event triggered the function and we know a cursor position. Probably, a delay to call this predicate should be set in the editor configuration, so it won't be called too often.

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