Re: [Bibdesk-users] changing autocompletion

[James H. <jho...@sy...>]

On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Alexander H Montgomery wrote:

> Disabling autocompletion for numeric fields would be nice. In fact, 
> the only useful autocompletes would seem to me to be 
> author/editor/journal/booktitle (the latter only for 
> incollection/inbook). Other fields are more likely to be unique than 
> usefully autocompleted.
>
> Also, if the author completes were a little smarter it would be more 
> useful. It should try to autocomplete based on the entire author, not 
> on the current word. e.g. If I have Bob Smith and Smithers Jones, when 
> I try to type Bob's last name, it currently suggests "Bob Smithers 
> Jones."

That is strange behaviour. I think that crept it when auto-completion 
for multiple keywords in the keywords field was added.  Is that right?

--J

>
> -AHM
>
> Martin Stokhof wrote:
>> On Feb 09, 2005, at 18:39, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>>> On 2/9/05 9:24 AM, "jiho" <jo....@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In previous example, I would type 2, BibDesk autocompletes with 
>>>> 243, I
>>>> type TAB or I click on the next fied and it discards the 
>>>> autocompletion
>>>> and brings me to it.
>>>> If, on the contrary I want to type the same volume number (243), I 
>>>> type
>>>> 2, let bibdesk autocomplete, type ENTER to accept the autocompletion
>>>> and then jump to the next field with the mouse or by typping TAB.
>>>>
>>>> I really think this would be a more appropriate behaviour, 
>>>> especially
>>>> for short fields like volumes, numbers and so on.
>>>> what do you think of this?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it's annoying, just as you described.
>>>
>>>> would it be easy to correct?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not in the manner you would like.  We could just disable 
>>> autocompletion for
>>> numeric fields (pages, volume, number, year).  Anyone else have 
>>> opinions on
>>> this?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>> I also think autocompletion of numeric fields is less useful, and if 
>> it were possible to turn it off, I would do so.
>> As for the way autocompletion works in general, how do people feel 
>> about the way this is handled in Excel? There you get a kind of drop 
>> down menu with a list of things that might complete what you have 
>> typed in some systematic order. You can either ignore the menu and 
>> type on, or make a selection. Would that increase the ease of use of 
>> autocompletion in text fields?
>> Martin
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