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When you start typing in Safari's "omnibar" you get suggestions based on search results and your bookmarks and history. I often find myself needing to change a small portion of the suggested url; say for instance that the suggested address is http://foo.com/bar whereas I want to go directly to http://foo.com.

Is there a way to edit the suggested address in place before hitting enter?

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  • Right arrow will take it to the end of the suggestion as an editable field, you could backspace from there. Also works even if you've down arrow stepped to another suggestion.
    – Tetsujin
    Jul 5, 2015 at 16:27
  • @Tetsujin that allows for editing the search query, if you like. I want to edit the url.
    – Milo Wielondek
    Jul 5, 2015 at 17:00
  • ? That's exactly what that does, it fills the current autosuggest as an editable URL, rather than going to it. If I want foo.com & the only autosuggest is foo.com/bar, then right arrow fills foo.com/bar as editable text, cursor at the end & I can then backspace/delete the /bar
    – Tetsujin
    Jul 5, 2015 at 17:11
  • @Tetsujin the problem is that the suggestions appear as titles of given webpage, not the url. So if I foo.com/bar is in your history then when you start typing in foo you get Foo Industries, Inc. if that happens to be its title. Then when you press the right arrow and backspace from there, as you say, it lets you edit the search query and not the url, i.e. Foo Industries, Inc instead of http://foo.com/bar. At least on Safari 8.0.7 on Yosemite.
    – Milo Wielondek
    Jul 5, 2015 at 18:15
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    @Tetsujin I figured out there are actually two different cases here. One is when the autocompleted suggestion is an url, the other when it's a title. In the first scenario you can indeed "right-arrow" to edit the url, whereas in the second scenario you can't. E.g. try typing superuser.com and you'll get a editable url, but if you start typing edit address of autocomplete you should get the autocompleted title of this question instead of the url..
    – Milo Wielondek
    Jul 5, 2015 at 19:23

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