I think lyx would be even more magnificant than it is if it helped out senile 
people like me that don't remember all of their latex commands when they are 
stuck.

For example, if I write \twohead<tab>, vaguely remembering something like 
\twoheadleftrightarrow, then I would like to be told whether it really 
exists, or whether I'm barking up the wrong tree.

Probably some very simple variation on autocompletion would bring most of the 
benefit, even if it simply autocompleted the maximal prefix common to all 
commands that match the typed prefix (which doesn't require new UI elements, 
just looking up commands and inserting characters).

Ronen says that a smarter implementation might use the status bar instead, and 
he's probably right, but I'd prefer a simpler implementation than none...

Daniel

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