A quickfill problem and an enhancement suggestion

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Apr 6 10:21:38 EDT 2011


Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> 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.

I don't particularly like using "initial backspace".  I do like the idea
of using 'escape'.

> Geert

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-derek

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