Re: auto text / autocomplete

abiryan@ryand.net wrote:
> What
> signals the acceptance of completion? A space, a tab, or a carriage
> return? These are just a few of the questions that stall
> implementations, not to mention the not-distant possibility that no
> matter what method is chosen, someone may say demotivating things
> to/about the developer who produces the feature, which really kills the
> spirit of the thing.

Actually, that remind me some lost feature from Word 5 Macintosh:
"Insert Formulae". It was some keyboard combination that inserted some
special char and then one could type things like sqrt(frac(a,b)) that
would generate equations. There was a lot of things that could be done
this way.

So we could have that "special combination", also available in menus, to
do it.

> I can't speak for the developers (I'm just QA and art/branding), but
> using "toy names" for OO.o and Microsoft Word/Windows doesn't
> necessarily impress me, and there's nobody here so deceived that you
> will offend them by suggesting we have competition.

We love competition. That keeps innovation going on. And there are
actual proof that competition stimulate product improvement and innovation.

Hub
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Received on Thu Jun 30 15:43:15 2005