diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/clients/clangd-vscode/src/extension.ts b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/clients/clangd-vscode/src/extension.ts
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/clients/clangd-vscode/src/extension.ts
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/clients/clangd-vscode/src/extension.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@
   }
 }
 
+class EnableEditsNearCursorFeature implements vscodelc.StaticFeature {
+  initialize() { }
+  fillClientCapabilities(capabilities: vscodelc.ClientCapabilities): void {
+    const extendedCompletionCapabilities: any = capabilities.textDocument.completion;
+    extendedCompletionCapabilities.editsNearCursor = true;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  *  this method is called when your extension is activate
  *  your extension is activated the very first time the command is executed
@@ -112,12 +120,27 @@
         // See https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/issues/898
         middleware: {
           provideCompletionItem: async (document, position, context, token, next) => {
-            // Get the incomplete identifier before the cursor.
-            let word = document.getWordRangeAtPosition(position);
-            let prefix = word && document.getText(new vscode.Range(word.start, position));
-            
             let list = await next(document, position, context, token);
             let items = (Array.isArray(list) ? list : list.items).map(item => {
+              // ^ is the position.
+              //  Example 1: std::u_p^
+              //  Example 2: a.f^
+              //
+              // When run code completion in VSCode, what happens:
+              // - clangd returns a completion item with range [[u_p]] and filterText "unique_ptr"
+              // - vscode extracts the word (prefix we called) from the range , which is "u_p"
+              // - vscode fuzzy-matches the filterText "unique_ptr" against the prefix "u_p"
+              //
+              // For example 2, the completion item range is [[.f]], filterText
+              // is "foo", insertText is "->foo". ".f" is the prefix used to do
+              // fuzzymatch, and the filterText "foo" is not matched, therefore
+              // the item is filtered out and not shown in the UI.
+              //
+              // Adding the prefix to the filterText will prevent VSCode filtering
+              // it out.
+
+              // Gets the prefix used by vscode when doing fuzzymatch.
+              let prefix = document.getText(new vscode.Range(item.range.start, position))
               if (prefix)
                 item.filterText = prefix + "_" + item.filterText;
               return item;
@@ -137,6 +160,7 @@
         vscode.Disposable.from(semanticHighlightingFeature));
     clangdClient.registerFeature(semanticHighlightingFeature);
   }
+  clangdClient.registerFeature(new EnableEditsNearCursorFeature);
   console.log('Clang Language Server is now active!');
   context.subscriptions.push(clangdClient.start());
   context.subscriptions.push(vscode.commands.registerCommand(