Questions tagged [autocomplete]
A feature where a program proposes the user to complete a text input based on what the user started to type. Autocomplete proposes the most likely string input.
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Outlook's autocomplete isn't working for only a couple of addresses
So I'm following this article to get autocomplete working:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/contacts/autocomplete-not-working-correctly-in-outlook-2010#if-you-have-a-microsoft-...
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Chrome: Address bar autocomplete changes sporadically
I frequently search Wikipedia on Chrome by opening a new tab, typing just "w" into the address bar, and then using tab-to-search with autocomplete to open the Wikipedia search.
I ...
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Get URL autocomplete to match around subdomain
A variety of sites that I use have the company name behind a subdomain, e.g.
app.asana.com
<mycompany>.salesforce.com
mail.protonmail.com
<mycompany>.latticehq.com
I'd like to be able to ...
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Autocomplete text
Here's a doubt, there is a tool that has the autocomplete function (such as https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/60998-autocomplete-12/) with the addition that if I start to write another word and I ...
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How can I add custom words to the suggested list in the text prediction feature in Windows 10?
I use the text prediction feature in Windows 10:
How can I add custom words to the suggested list?
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How to get Visual Studio like IntelliSense completion in Visual Studio Code?
Let's say I am typing import matplotlib.pyplot. In Visual Studio, if I press space once the dropdown appears, it autocompletes the pyplot part and inserts a space after. Or when the name of a function ...
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Poetry completion is not working in macOS Monterey
On a pristine macOS I followed the steps listed here ending with a .zshrc file like this:
export PATH="/Users/canciobello/Library/Python/3.9/bin:$PATH"
fpath+=~/.zfunc
compinit
The zsh ...
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Windows PowerShell keeps autocompleting with the SendTo folder in the home directory
I'm using PowerShell on Windows 10. When I type ls in my home folder, the only folder that starts with an s is a folder called source. When I type cd s and then press the tab key, PowerShell ...
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How to add auto-completion for ZSH to any type of script without writing files and changing .zshrc?
I have a large codebase that will get cloned by every user to his own system before using it on a large HPC-cluster, where I do not have root-priviledges.
Some of the scripts are perl-, python- and ...
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gtk-launch autocomplete is very slow
Am using zsh with zsh-completions on arch linux. Whenever i press tab after gtk-launch it takes very long (3-4 seconds) to load suggestions, even if i type a partial word. What could be the cause for ...
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Contacts search on New Outlook on MacOS contact lost
When you compose a new email in the "New Outlook" UX on MacOS, in the "to" field I was finding a contact via autocomplete by typing the first few letters of their email and she ...
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Intellisense Autocomplete for C# Not Working After Installing Node.js Development
I've been using Visual Studio 2019 with only C# desktop development and
to type "public int" I pressed p, u, [space bar], i, n, [space bar], and that was all.
After installing Node.js ...
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Outlook auto-complete not resolving properly
Using Outlook 365 on Exchange server, auto-complete recently started behaving erratically. Many times, when I select a suggestion after typing a name, either by clicking or hitting enter, it does not ...
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Is user defined automatic completion possible in PuTTY?
I have often to enter the same strings in PuTTy. Is there a way to teach PuTTY to auto replace a short string with its long version, e.g. to convert "pcname" into "pcname.very-long-...
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Terminal autocompletion freezes the UI on a fresh Ubuntu
I've just installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a pretty powerful desktop.
When I open the terminal and type
ls /<TAB><TAB>
The cursor stops blinking and the whole UI is frozen. Only the mouse can ...
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unwanted code hints (prettify.css) in vscode
where are these coming from
I have disabled all extensions. I am pretty sure that there is no prettify.css or base.css among my project files and yet I am still getting these code hints. How can I get ...
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Bash completion not working for 'aws cli' after installed via brew
After I use brew to install aws cli, here is the message form brew:
==> awscli
The "examples" directory has been installed to:
/usr/local/share/awscli/examples
Bash completion has been ...
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Excel Auto filling with text?
I’m working on our taxes for a taxi business I just started. I run into a lot of the same addresses but it’s tough to remember all of the area codes for them, we only have 3 different areas as far as ...
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Notepad++ space within a keyword in Autocomplete
I created my autocomplete file after reading some documents. The problem is i cant add space within a keyword. My keyword is "define method .xx"
But notepad++ recognise all of the worda separately.
Is ...
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vscode-html-languageserver-bin for lsp-mode in emacs throws error when trying to autocomplete
I use lsp-mode for Emacs (https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode) and everything works perfectly except for the auto-completion of the html-languageserver (https://github.com/vscode-langservers/vscode-...
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The ControlsFX Textfields.bindAutoCompletion will not update with new parameters. Is there a solution or workaround?
I've spent a number of days researching this particular issue and used many suggested solutions such as '.dispose()' that I thought might work but have not, but nothing specifically addresses this ...
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Autocompletion for python script on $PATH
I have been using zsh with oh-my-zsh.
I have created python script which I would like to call from every catalog in terminal. So I put it on $PATH and it runs from everywhere but my autocompletion do ...
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Intellij AutoComplete import could not find java.util.HashMap
I am using Intellij version.2013.3.4 (built on January 31, 2017) on OSX.
The problem is when I using HashMap, it never find java.util.HashMap.
Is this only happens to me ? Since I am using HashMap ...
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My computer is changing text "a la" to "à la"
I am using Windows 10 aniversary edition, and every time I type the Spanish words "a la" it is changing to the French "à la".
My main language is set to Spanish and the region is set up to Spain.
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Autocompleting/expanding text in Microsoft Word 2010
I'm creating a technical document using Microsoft Word 2010 in Windows 7. I have various pieces of long technical terminology that I regularly use, and typing this jargon manually hundreds of times ...
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How can I help Safari's autocomplete find the right site
The site I visit most often is umich.instructure.com. Unfortunately, that page then loads several resources from urls in the form umich.instructure.com/_____. For whatever reason, Safari now assumes ...
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Prevent deleting newly typed url's
Can someone please let me know how i can prevent a limited user in windows 7 from deleting newly typed url's in internet explorer or any other browser by just pointing to the url and pressing the "...
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Is there a way to set default tab completions in a linux terminal?
A single table auto-completes if there is only one option
amflare:~$ cd t [tab] est-dir/
amflare:~/test-dir/$
Double tab displays all option if there is more then one
amflare:~$ cd t [tab][tab]
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Why are all my adress bar suggestions disappeared in Google Chrome?
When you have ever visited a site in Google Chrome, it saves the URL as a suggestion for auto-complete.
For example: I've ever visited youtube.com and since then I can just type the y in the adress ...
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Linux `apt-get install` with no candidate packages fails, but `apt-get remove` working normally
I have installed bash-completion by apt-get install bash-completion and then I set source /etc/share/bash-completion/completion in ~/.bashrc.
apt-get inst + Tab becomes apt-get install, but when I ...
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Webstorm 2016.1 Autocomplete without Ctrl + Space not working
I am not sure if this was a change in one of the recent updates but I no longer get autocompletion suggestions as I type things like css selectors in a .css file or js function completion when typing ...
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Autocomplete errors on internal exchange emails
We recently switched the company from a hosted exchange to our own Exschange 2016 server. When we moved everything over we would get bouncebacks on internal emails. I found the cause of this to be ...
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Autocomplete disambiguous commands/files in Windows Command Prompt/PowerShell
One of my high school networking courses has me using a program to simulate servers and networks, which allows me to use virtual shells on end devices (eg. PCs and, if remotely connected, switches/...
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Start a batch shell within a bash shell with autocomplete with windows
I am using bash inside Cygwin and I want to start a new batch shell within the current shell.
So I use cmd to enter into a new batch shell:
myuser@machine /
$ cmd
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0....
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Notepad++: Automatic "comment line (*)" on newline
is there a way to make notepad++ behave like eclipse with multi-line comments?
It would be great if notepad automatically inserts " * " every time I make a new line in a /* */ comment-section.
To be ...
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Google Play very strange auto-suggest on search box
I try to find a good name for a game I want to publish and I start searching for the competition. When I start typing Google Play shows me up to 5 suggestions.
The very weird thing is that I get some ...
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Outlook autocomplete names keep reappearing after I delete them
This is an NK2 file that has been copied from a previous incarnation of my system after a clean wipe. Autocomplete works great, but whenever I delete an old name in Outlook (select the name in the ...
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How to autocomplete filenames with "wordwise" camelcase matching in bash?
While programming using QtCreator, I got used to its camelcase-aware completion, e.g. typing MC<ctrl-space> would offer MyClass as a completion option.
Now I am basically annoyed about that ...
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Zsh compdef for apt-get install, or other 2 part commands
How can I use a compdef for zsh completion such that a custom written function uses a 2 part command for the completion?
Example:
my_function () {
sudo apt-get install $@
}
compdef my_function=&...
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How to autocomplete columns when going down one row in Excel 2013?
In my excel sheet I have values that could be automatically filled upon going down to an empty row.
My excel sheet has this structure:
If I go from Row 3 down to Row 4 i would have to insert the ...
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Stop Mac Mail message body from auto completing email addresses
Every time I type to an "@" symbol it auto completes the rest of the email address. The problem is that I have more than one email address that is like [email protected]. I have several of those ...
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How to add or edit autocompletions in Sublime text 3?
I am using Sublime text 3 build 3065 to edit HTML and PHP code. The built in HTML tag completions are awesome, just typing p and pressing tab gets you <p></p> with the cursor in the right ...
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Custom word library for notepad++ autocomplete
So, there's already a question about this here, from back in 2010: How do I edit or add to Notepad++ HTML/CSS autocomplete?
Since then though, we've gone from version 5.7 to 6.6.9
Using the ...
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bash auto-complete separates strings
Let's say I'd like to cd to the directory containing all albums by the artist "The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger" so I start typing
cd ~/Music/The\ Ghost
and hit [TAB] [TAB]. At this point bash ...
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How do I keep //end main and //end class on the same line
I am running Java eclipse 4.3.1
${filecomment}
${package_declaration}
${typecomment}
${type_declaration}//end class
//end main
"package tester;
public class test {
public static void main (...
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Eclipse auto completition issue
I have installed the eclipse kepler edition and I want when extending a class or start to override a method to pop with options but it doesn't although it pops things when referring to an object's ...
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RE: Autocomplete in IE & Firefox
How can I completely destroy, kill, and permanently erase the 'Autocomplete' function in such a way that I never have to deal with it again?
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Source ~/.zshrc needed after OSX terminal restart
I have some zsh custom autocomplete set up in OSX for a custom command I have. These autocomplete functions are defined in ~/.zshrc. If I restart the OSX Terminal, I see that the autocomplete does not ...
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How stop zsh backspacing over trailing underscore in autocomplete filename?
I have several files in my test directory that all start with 'test_'. I frequently use autocomplete to specify one of these files to edit or run. When I press tab to autocomplete, zsh correctly fills ...
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How to add an text entry to automatically complete a form in Google Chrome?
In Google Chrome, when I type something to an textbox, such as my email address or an username for a website, Chrome remembers it. The next time I log in to that website, I just type some first letter ...