Selection cursor doesn't appear at the top of the autocompletion list for gopls about nvim-cmp HOT 3 CLOSED

It turns out that gopls pre-selects an item each time an auto-completion list is generated. And gopls's pre-selection does not respect the ordering of the list generated by the completion source. As a workaround, you can prevent this behavior by setting preselect to cmp.PreselectMode.None. E.g:

local cmp = require("cmp")
cmp.setup({
    preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None
})

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It turns out that gopls pre-selects an item each time an auto-completion list is generated. And gopls's pre-selection does not respect the ordering of the list generated by the completion source. This behavior can be prevented by setting preselect to cmp.PreselectMode.None. E.g:

local cmp = require("cmp")
cmp.setup({
    preselect = cmp.PreselectMode.None
})

With this setting there is no preselect at all. What if I want the first one to be selected always?

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The problem is that nvim-cmp reorders the items of the completion list dynamically. What this means is that the order of items in the completion list depends on the current state of the source file. For example, if the name of a function has already appeared in the file at least once, then that item will be placed higher up the list. I've already described the issue in detail here: golang/go#61533 (comment)

Unfortunatly, nvim-cmp's dynamic reordering does not take LSP preselection into account. By right, nvim-cmp should place the item that is preselected by the LSP at the top of the list. That is why I resorted to turn off the preselect feature altogether.

I can reopen this issue if you want. But at the moment, I'm not interested in any further investigation into this issue.

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