diff --git a/kiss/src/kiss/Reader.hx b/kiss/src/kiss/Reader.hx
index e991671a..a20debc4 100644
--- a/kiss/src/kiss/Reader.hx
+++ b/kiss/src/kiss/Reader.hx
@@ -129,7 +129,26 @@ class Reader {
         };
 
         // Because macro keys are sorted by length and peekChars(0) returns "", this will be used as the default reader macro:
-        readTable[""] = (stream:Stream, k) -> Symbol(nextToken(stream, "a symbol name"));
+        readTable[""] = (stream:Stream, k) -> {
+            var position = stream.position();
+            var token = nextToken(stream, "a symbol name");
+            // Process dot-access on alias identifiers
+            return if (token.indexOf(".") != -1) {
+                try {
+                    Std.parseFloat(token);
+                    Symbol(token);
+                } catch (err) {
+                    var tokenParts = token.split(".");
+                    var fieldExp = Symbol(tokenParts.shift());
+                    while (tokenParts.length > 0) {
+                        fieldExp = FieldExp(tokenParts.shift(), fieldExp.withPos(position));
+                    }
+                    fieldExp;
+                }
+            } else {
+                Symbol(token);
+            };
+        }
 
         return readTable;
     }
diff --git a/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.hx b/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.hx
index a64f9c1c..56c814bd 100644
--- a/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.hx
+++ b/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.hx
@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ class BasicTestCase extends Test {
     function testLetThrow() {
         _testLetThrow();
     }
+
+    function testDotAccessOnAlias() {
+        _testDotAccessOnAlias();
+    }
 }
 
 class BasicObject {
diff --git a/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.kiss b/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.kiss
index 599984f6..9a1e2760 100644
--- a/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.kiss
+++ b/kiss/src/test/cases/BasicTestCase.kiss
@@ -540,3 +540,10 @@
                 (Assert.fail)}
         (catch [:String e]
             (Assert.equals "the error we want" e))))
+
+// Test dot-access on identifiers aliases
+(var objWithField (object field 5))
+(var float 0.5) // This should still read as a float, not a dot access on a variable called 0
+(defAlias &ident owf objWithField)
+(function _testDotAccessOnAlias []
+    (Assert.equals 5 owf.field))
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/projects/kiss-vscode/config/KissConfig.kiss b/projects/kiss-vscode/config/KissConfig.kiss
index af7baa55..ad416bca 100644
--- a/projects/kiss-vscode/config/KissConfig.kiss
+++ b/projects/kiss-vscode/config/KissConfig.kiss
@@ -44,14 +44,12 @@
 // TODO make an async annotation that throws an error if the promise is not wrapped in awaitLet or awaitBegin or returned by an async function?
 // but in some cases it doesn't matter and there are so many edge cases.
 (function insertAt [:vscode.Position pos text]
-    (.edit activeTextEditor
+    (activeTextEditor.edit
         (lambda [e]
             (e.insert pos text))))
 
 (function insert [text]
-    // TODO this let is because identifier alias dot access is broken:
-    (let [editor activeTextEditor]
-        (insertAt editor.selection.active text)))
+    (insertAt activeTextEditor.selection.active text)))
 
 /**
  * State