https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77603
--- Comment #5 from tommy27 <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > .... > Maybe a larger minimum character length could help here, or a more special > notation, eg. the regex ".*", instead of a new option. thanks for thinking about it. my 2 cents is that the new feature has good potential but probably needs some tweaking to avoid to be accidentally triggered by users who are unaware of it. probably you should choose a different key or key combination to be used as a wildcard. the key "*" in indeed too easily accessible and can already be part of previous autocorrect list causing disfunction like those I've encountered... for example in an italian layout keyboard the "*" is close to the "é" key which is a font present at the end of many italian words (i.e. perché, pressoché etc. etc.) so there are high chances that an italian user sets an autocorrect couple like: perch* --> perché unfortunately if you digit similar typos hitting nearby keys like "p" or "à" the wildcard * will trigger unwanted corrections like: perchp --> perchép perchà --> perchéà which is really really bad. so bottomline is that the feature has to be kept but refined to avoid accidental side effect. I still think that an option like "enable/disable * wildcard autocorrect" would be a proper solution. a second option would be to change the wildcard to the simple * key to a more elaborated regex-like key combination like you proposed for ".*" which has really no chance to be accidentally typed by unaware users. it's very unlikely that a user has an autocorrect couple like: perch".*" --> perchè unless he is well-aware of what a regex is. a change in the wildcard autocorrection feature will probably be well tolerated by users since I think it was not very advertised and I bet most of our user base don't even know that it exist, me too I was thinking tha "it was a bug, not a feature" :-) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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