Enable quick suggestions for Markdown in VS Code

I had been using VS Code for quite sometime for my personal projects. The quick suggestion and code completion feature of VS Code come in handy in many cases. I was working on a long markdown file one day and wished quick suggestion showed up here as well. The quick suggestion works even in a plain text file, so I was wondering why it didn’t work in a markdown file.

I looked into Intellisense page for reference and realized that it is enabled only for certain languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML and some more) by default. Support for other languages (e.g. Python, C, C++ etc.) are managed by their corresponding extension. I had to explicitly turn it on for Markdown file by setting the editor.quickSuggestions options in the settings.json file. The flags comments and strings can be set to true if we want quick suggestions for comments and string literals.

"[markdown]": {
    "editor.quickSuggestions": {
        "other": true,
        "comments": false,
        "strings": false
    }
}

The docs has all the necessary details on different options in Intellisense that we can customize. Quick suggestions can be sometime be annoying too, so I didn’t want to enable globally in VS Code. I updated the settings.json only in the workspace I wanted to, instead of updating the user settings. That way, I can toggle the settings without affecting other projects that are open in Code.