Why is Solidity Vscode Intellisense only working if i explicitly specify an Open Zeppelin contract

Question

I'm struggling severely to configure my Vscode working properly.

I have imported contract of openzeppelin - ERC721.sol Now I expected its function _mint() be available in intellisense when i start typing it in my contract, but here is what i see if I start typing it and then click Ctrl+Space:

In the same time if i explicitly type the contract name - then i can see intellisense autocompletion:

How can i make it possible to simply get intellisense suggestion of this function once i start typing it?

UPDATE: I provided a bigger code snippet and simplified to minimum for example purposes.

UPDATE: I realised that the autocompletion now in the vscode solidity plugin works in a way that ignores the modules from node_modules. Quick way to test it - I put my contract file into the openzeppelin module folder, next to the ERC721.sol - autocompletion works fine. (suggested by @marko-popovic)

Question remains the same though: Isn't that possible to make it so that I could use autocompletion for modules that are present in node_modules and imported into my contract?

Answer 1

In you case, ERC721 is imported from NPM (using @), while the imported files in the extension demo video are in the same directory as the contract that is importing them.

To enable intellisense, either keep using the NPM import style and prefix the method names with ERC721. (which would be my suggestion), or move the openzepellin code manually into the same folder as your contract.

Finally, you cannot achieve that with the current version of the extension, as it is obviously works properly, but has this limitation with different types of imports. This might be improved in some future version, but if you want to get that feature right now you will either have to move the code manually or maybe look for another extension.