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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