A quickfill problem and an enhancement suggestion

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Apr 5 15:53:53 EDT 2011


On dinsdag 5 april 2011, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> I earlier wrote:
> > >> Here's an example of a quickfill irritation.  I want to enter "Stop &
> > >> Shop" as the description of a transaction.  So I type the S and then
> > >> the T.  At that point it autofills with full caps and the name of a
> > >> particular store in the chain, because that was in an imported
> > >> transaction.  So how do I get that lowercase "t" in?
> > > 
> > > Just continue typing. As soon as what you have typed does no longer fit
> > > to an existing transaction, upper- / lowercase will automatically be
> > > restored so that it matches what you have entered.
> 
> If you type over the existing autofill but with a different case, you see
> what was there originally, not what you're typing.  It's quite confusing
> when what you type is not what you see.
> 
> Aside from the fact that it requires someone to go to the effort of
> implementing my suggestion that an initial backspace cancels autofill, are
> there any problems with the idea itself?

No, as far as I'm concerned the idea is good. I don't know how much effort it 
would be to implement though.

Geert


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