Autocomplete

[AND51]

Hm... You're right! I didn't think of that before.

[Trond]

This must be a bug:

Type
"and"
and move to the start of the line. There you type
Hello
and move to the start of the line. There you type
"
The and now turns into And.

Undo six times. This is well past the time when the and was changed, but it is not changed back.

[Trond]

By the way, it's also possible to avoid this with a single quote instead of a comment:

Type
"lucille and friends"
Go to the start of the line and type (_ is space)
'Hello_
Press delete to delete the first "
Type a " before the '
Delete the '

[freak]

> Undo six times. This is well past the time when the and was changed, but it is not changed back.

The case correction is not recorded in the undo buffer, as it would be very annoying
if any case correction needed to be undone separately.

[Trond]

Not separately, together with the action that triggered the case correction. By the way, auto-indent is undoed separately, and that is also annoying.

[AND51]

@ freak:

I thought, autocomplete waits with the capitalization until word has been finished?

Try to create a constant #sonstiges... #SO seems to be a pre-declared variable that turns
#sonstiges
into
#SOnstiges

grrrrr! annoying! :roll:

[PB]

I hate how if you press Enter, the highlighted word in AutoComplete gets used.
It would probably be better just to use TAB to complete the selected word.

Why? I was coding a little game and had 2 x variables: "wins" and "losses".
At one point I typed "Debug wins" and pressed Enter, and what happened?
The line was written as: "Debug WinSubmitCertificate_(".

[AND51]

PB, your problem can be solved easyly:

Go to preferneces, autocomplete and select the optiongadget "Only words, beginning with the typed word".

Your problem works here fine, I can press enter and "wins" will be typed.

[freak]

@ freak:

I thought, autocomplete waits with the capitalization until word has been finished?

Try to create a constant #sonstiges... #SO seems to be a pre-declared variable that turns
#sonstiges
into
#SOnstiges

grrrrr! annoying! :roll:

This is what this thread was about, and i said its fixed for 4.10

[AND51]

Sorry, then I missed you somehow... Thank you!

[nco2k]

I hate how if you press Enter, the highlighted word in AutoComplete gets used.
It would probably be better just to use TAB to complete the selected word.

Why? I was coding a little game and had 2 x variables: "wins" and "losses".
At one point I typed "Debug wins" and pressed Enter, and what happened?
The line was written as: "Debug WinSubmitCertificate_(".

thats exactly the reason why imo CTRL+RETURN would be better instead of just RETURN.

c ya,
nco2k

[AND51]

thats exactly the reason to ignore my post?

c ya,
AND51

[nco2k]

i am using "Display only words..." since day 1 and it doesnt solve the problem, the reason why you dont have that problem is probably because you have selected a higher value in "Characters needed before opening the list" or you moved the cursor before you pressed return or done something else that caused the autocomplete window to close. :roll:

> thats exactly the reason to ignore my post?
there are many other reasons to ignore your posts.

c ya,
nco2k

[AND51]

I have set the value to 3.
You may tell me your value, but I don't believe that this has anything to do with PB's problem (except for the value 4, because "wins" has 4 letters).

> there are many other reasons to ignore your posts
for example?

[Kaeru Gaman]

hey, AND, cut this.


>> I hate how if you press Enter, the highlighted word in AutoComplete gets used.
> thats exactly the reason why imo CTRL+RETURN would be better instead of just RETURN.
I agree, good idea. TAB and CTRL-RETURN would be nice.
I use Tab when I want to write further after the completed command.
the completion on RETURN annoyed me more than once, too.