VS autocomplete does not validate on ";" (1018317))

you can see it's doing some sort of ghosted rectangle selection of jobcComplete, taunting me that it'll work



it's on the latest updated of the VS editor

 

I'm able to reproduce this behavior back to Visual Studio 2012. Why don't use you TAB to auto-complete the soft-selected item instead?

I imagine there are VS extensions that are more aggressive in terms of auto-complete and perhaps you find one that you like more than the built-in behavior.

I guess it's unlikely that Microsoft would change this behavior, since it's established for many years. I, for example, don't want VS to auto-complete items non-selected items. If this gets considered to be changed, please make it an option to keep working the old way.

PS: I guess the actual issue in this case is that VS does not hard-select the "jobComplete" argument in the code-completion list.

 

That's right.

 

For me this issue appears at random times, VS just stops auto-completing normally and gives this half-selected suggestion instead. Very annoying, have to restart VS to fix it. It happens daily, but I'm not sure what triggers it. This issue is in 2017, 2015 and maybe older version too.