Comment 4 for bug 343673

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Lionel Dricot <email address hidden> wrote:
> I believe I would prefer a menu like in Gedit or eclipse with displays
> the propositions. Of course, the OpenOffice is the worst approach, as
> usual.

When you have several possibilities, I think it's the best approach.
However it's not the simplest to implement (but we're not afraid, are
we? ;-) ).

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> Autocomplete for tags
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/343673
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> Status in Getting Things Gnome!: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> When typing @tags into a task, existing matching tags should be suggested for auto-completion. The simplest way to do this would be the same way OpenOffice does it for long words that you're typing - it completes the rest of the word for you but leaves your cursor where it is, with the auto-completed part of the word selected.
> This way, if you carry on typing, the selected part will be replaced - so if it's got the autocomplete wrong, the user doesn't even notice. If it's got it right, you can press enter to accept the suggestion and it'll place the cursor at the end of the word, ready for you to carry on typing.
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> I think I would prefer tab for accepting the suggestion rather than enter but these are implementation details really - some form of auto-complete for @tags would be nice.
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