Russell Butler wrote:
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
The method described above helps, but it still leaves the major
inconvenience of having to go through these steps before EVERY session
of word processing. The gather words function is very dumb in the sense
that it cannot be programmed by the user to ignore things like words out
of titles in all caps, strings with numerals, things like this,
"hinge............$1.29" so that the next time you type hin you get that
string etc. So you end up going into the internal dictionary of
autocomplete and clearing out a lot of junk, very frequently. And if
you turn off gather words, it ends up completely disabling the
autocomplete feature. So what is really needed is to make the internal
dictionary permanent, in the sense that it is not cleared out when you
end a word processing session but is retained for the next session.
Somehow I doubt that that would require a huge amount of re-coding. If
this change isn't made, the autocomplete feature is so limited in
usefulness that it might as well be removed altogether.
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