Robert Derman wrote:
Russell Butler wrote:
Hi All
I have become sufficiently annoyed by the behaviour of autocomplete to
consider raising an issue. Being a rather slow typist, I value the use
of autocompletion, though I know many of you turn it off.
However, if I have a document open, and for some reason look up the
Help files, the word completion list becomes populated with words from
the help file, which then become offered as options. These seem to be
rarely likely to be useful.
This behaviour is seen in 2.4.1 (and earlier) and persists in 3.0 at
last to the version I have installed, which is Dev300 m25
If there is any enthusiasm, I'll raise an issue for it.
Thanks for your thoughts
Russell
I would like to see a major change in the way autocomplete works, I
think that it should have a PERMANENT dictionary, that stays in memory
so that at some point you could turn off the gather words function and
have it always refer to your permanent dictionary.
Actually Robert, in looking at the behaviour, I looked up word
completion in the Help, and there is a suggested work-around which goes
part way - to enabling such a function, that is to copy your "technical"
words to a text document, then open that at the beginning of each work
session. I guess you could then reduce the maximum number of entries to
correspond to that number although I don't know if the limit works by
discarding current entries to add more. I don't know that I have ever
reached the 500 word limit set as default. I normally only write reports
of few pages.
Regards
Rusell
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