favor local types and values in autocomplete popup over ambients declaration

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

it's not clear to me what drives the order of the list of autocomplete popup suggestions, i wish my local types and values were listed first, and ambients came after them

[mjbvz]

This was reported against VSCode recently as well: microsoft/vscode#29613

For code such as:

var cancel = 123
can|

The suggestions for can have the same sort text:

 {
        "name": "cancel",
        "kind": "var",
        "kindModifiers": "",
        "sortText": "0"
    },
    {
        "name": "cancelAnimationFrame",
        "kind": "function",
        "kindModifiers": "declare",
        "sortText": "0"
    }

I believe that variables and parameters should have a higher sort text (or that globals should have a lower sort text)

[mhegazy]

A feature that VS has today is remembering the last entry the user selected in the completion list. so the first time you type cancel it does not get it, but next time it gets a preferential treatment. I think this is a general feature that would be beneficial to VSCode users in general given the locality of reference for variables in general, and less disorienting as reordering based on scope.

[mhegazy]

@mjbvz thoughts?

[lifehackett]

I'd still prefer local scope to get higher weighting. The remembering of the last selection only solves a small subset of the use cases that I care about.

[mjbvz]

VS Code has added support for remembering suggestions with the editor.suggestSelection setting.

I still think that adding some basic sorting based on scope would be very helpful. @DanielRosenwasser Can we revisit this feature request?