Is it possible to listen to events of an inputbox?

[mithun-daa]

If I accept input using

window.showInputBox();

Is there any way I can listen to key change events? I am writing an extension and I want to accept an input from the user and I want to autocomplete when the user hits tab like most terminals. If this is not possible inside the inputbox is there any other control I can use to achieve this?

[bpasero]

@mithun-daa currently not, but it seems you want a lot more, also the ability to alter the input after the call to showInputBox.

[jeffyoung]

Perhaps hidden in #3579 was the request for an extension to have this functionality as a part of the command structure (and not particular to an input box). In that issue, it is described that an extension author may want to have command 'options' show up as they type a command name. For instance, given commands today that are hard-coded as:

team create bug
team create task
team create work item

The functionality I'm looking for would be for the command palette to show "team create" by default and when "team create" was either completed (or the only command option left based on matching) would the values "bug", "task" and "work item" would appear. This allows extension developers to provide "dynamic" commands.

In addition (or maybe alternatively), it would be welcome for a command to take a variable number of arguments. The command that gets called could then take action based on what was passed in to the command. In the example above, the command could be "team create", then one of the 3 options would appear, and the user could type even more values (that would be passed to the command that was selected).