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| Sep 15 2016, 7:56 AM |
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| Sep 15 2016, 7:56 AM |
Autocompletion is a nice feature that helps users to type words that occur often more quickly. While it sounds difficult to implement, VE actually makes this quite easy. I wrote a quick-and-dirty proof-of-concept user script: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Schnark/js/veSuggestions.js Of course my script has bugs and limitations, but it shows the concept, and proves that this isn't as difficult as it might seem.
I think it would be great to implement such a feature directly in VE.
Though this sounds fun, I'm unsure how we could possibly support this given that it would interfere with typing in languages which use IMEs; re-writing the CE surface is very dangerous and something we go to extreme lengths to avoid.
For now, absent a clear idea of how we would do this, I'll put it into the backlog.
Autocorrect and autocompletion are very nice features. That said, this is better handled by browsers, browser plugins, operating systems extensions, mobile device predictive text, and so on; they'll do a better job of it than we ever could, and all we'd be doing here is duplicating that effort.