Quick suggestions don't work while inside snippet placeholder

Question

Summary:

As you can see in the gif file below, suggestions show up as we type sysout when not inside any snippet placeholder, otherwise, they don't show up.

Already tried:

I looked on GitHub issues and filed a GitHub issue.

Answer 1

Microsoft support was on it quickly: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/72582

"Quick suggestions and snippet placeholder often collide and by default quick suggestions are disabled when snippet mode is active. This setting controls that behaviour: editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions" was their reply.

So basically, editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions need to be set to false in settings.json