https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78539

--- Comment #2 from Krish <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi Krish, thanks for reporting.
> 
> I think it is controlled by Menu/Tools/Cells content/Autoinput option.
> Does it resolved, disabling it?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi Krish, thanks for reporting.
> 
> I think it is controlled by Menu/Tools/Cells content/Autoinput option.
> Does it resolved, disabling it?

Thanks for responding so quickly. Disabling autoinput will turn off the
feature, which is not what I was looking for. The autoinput suggestion should
not be injected without user approval. While the user is typing, the
highlighted postfix supplied by the autoinput feature is only tentative, and
should not be committed when user hits a return. If the user is not watching
the screen, it will result in incorrect data entry. Highlighted text should not
be automatically added to the text without user approval, which is usually done
by having the user tab or move the cursor over to EOL. For example if you are
using any other application such as eclipse, the proposed auto-completion is
accepted only if the user moves the cursor over the highlighted proposed text
to the end of the line.
Data entry errors in spreadsheets can be hard to detect and the user interface
should not make it more error prone, in my opinion.
For exmaple, if I wanted the auto-completion feature, and were entering grades,
then entering a sequence such as the following with autoinout feature enabled
makes it harder -
Tom   B+
Dick  B
Harry B-
I would want the autocompletion to feature, but I don;t want it inserting stuff
into the spreadsheet without me acknowledging it.
Thanks so much.

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