A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Oct 30, 2016 8:25 UTC (Sun) by dirtyepic (guest, #30178)
In reply to: A report from the documentation maintainer by flussence
Parent article: A report from the documentation maintainer

Believe it or not, some people have the ability to type into things other than shells.

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A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Nov 2, 2016 12:02 UTC (Wed) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link] (2 responses)

If your text editor cannot complete words, maybe consider switching?

The example of e-mail was brought up. I guess you are surrounding the reference to a file under Documentation/ with one or more sentences. Containing complete words (not abbreviations) for the most part.

A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Nov 3, 2016 15:22 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

If your text editor can complete words, maybe consider ditching it?

I consider the text completion in Kate (my favourite editor) an absolute PAIN. Likewise date completion in word processors. Etc etc. If I *don't ask for it*, then I *don't want it*. How many times I have I had the stuff I'm typing corrupted by autocomplete, autocorrect, etc? Far too many!!! And they usually use something like "return" to indicate that I want the change, so if I'm gaily typing away and put this thing at the end of the line, I get the auto-change that I didn't ask for because the editor thinks I did!

Getting the UI on this right is *NOT* easy, and then giving it to a touch typist who has been trained *NOT* to look at the screen is going to cause an awful lot of grief!

Cheers,
Wol

A report from the documentation maintainer

Posted Nov 3, 2016 18:18 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

You're talking about autocompletion. Supporting completion behind a keybinding (e.g., <C-n> or <C-p> in Vim) is not the same thing.