https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78545

--- Comment #2 from Richard Neill <[email protected]> ---
Ctrl-Tab does help a bit, but it's much more awkward than a smarter
auto-complete. It needs 2 extra keystrokes (which aren't easy to type fast),
and then we may have to Ctrl-tab multiple times. Furthermore, it's a
non-discoverable and less-intuitive way to work.

There is one extra refinement needed - in that we aren't always appending data
at the bottom of a column; sometimes we insert in the middle or at the top.

(1) Current algorithm is:
  Scan from top of column for match, accept the first one.

(2) Improved algorithm.
  Scan outward (up + down) from the current cell for a match, accept the
  nearest one.

(3) Optimised algorithm:
  Scan the entire column and count matches. Accept the most popular match.


Given that (3) may be harder to write, and possibly worse at runtime, I think
that (2) would suffice - it should be easy to write, and would catch most of
the common cases.

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