I am pretty sure I have tried everything, including clicking out of the field,
when I first got the problem. It was impossible.
But that was in version 5.0. I didn't retry every option with every new
version.
I checked and indeed, it is now possible to save user 'User' with password 'p'
and user 'user' with password 'ppp'.
Now how can I recall the password for user? If I press 'u' and select
'user' from the dropdown, it fills in 'User'. If I type 'user' and I
tab out of the field, it gets converted to 'User'. In both cases the
password is 'p'. If I type 'user' and click out of the field, it
remains 'user' but there is no autocomplete.
The only thing you need to do to make me happy, and I am sure it is a
small fix is:
When recalling the password, I imagine the code something like:
for each stored user/password {
if( form user == stored user ignoring case ){
set form user = stored user
set form password = stored password
break;
}
}
The fix is to search first for an exact match, and if it fails, search for a
match ignoring case
found = false;
for each stored user/password {
if( form user == stored user ){
set form password = stored password
found = true;
break;
}
}
if( !found ){
for each stored user/password {
if( form user == stored user, ignoring case ){
set form user = stored user
set form password = stored password
break;
}
}
}
I really don't know who can argue against this being a nicer behavior.
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