Questions tagged [autocomplete]
A feature where a program proposes the user to complete a text input based on what the user started to type. Autocomplete proposes the most likely string input.
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Chrome: autocomplete domain first?
Firefox usually decides to be smart about this, and it actually works fairly well.
Lets say you have a google search cached. In Firefox, you can start typing in the address bar and it will only ...
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bash autocompletion is slow, freezing my desktop
sometimes when working with a custom kernel, pressing tab in the bash autocompletes at a horrible pace. It freezes the whole desktop. Then comes back after awhile.
This is the only quirk that I've ...
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Firefox 57 Not Asking To Save Passwords (certain sites only)
According to this, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3868299/is-autocomplete-off-compatible-with-all-modern-browsers/21348793#21348793, browsers ignore autocomplete="off" for login/password fields. ...
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Visual Studio 2012 Intellisense choosing the wrong item
This minor annoyance has started to really irk me lately. When coding, Intellisense often selects the wrong item from the autocomplete menu. This behaviour is common, but not completely consistent. It'...
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Can user-defined autocomplete keyword description in notepad++ span multiple lines?
I am creating an API auto-complete XML file for my user-defined language. Can the description text assigned to the keyword be displayed as multiple lines inside the auto-complete pop-up window?
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compgen on zsh returns a different result than on bash
I am trying to make bash completions work properly in zsh.
I am aware of the need to load these in ~/.zshrc:
autoload -Uz +X compinit && compinit
autoload -Uz +X bashcompinit && ...
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zsh completion after installing/removing packages
How does zsh figure out currently installed packages on Debian, and how can I update that information? After running apt-get install, zsh won't autocomplete that package as a possible parameter for ...
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Opera doesn't show me addressbar content completion for all pages. Why?
When I type something in the address bar then I sometime see Opera offering pages which have the given word in the page text. This would be very useful if it worked all the time, but whenever I try it ...
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zsh: Autocomplete ambigously only on second tab press
Currently, when I hit TAB, and there's more than one option to autocomplete, zsh will show all of them. If I hit TAB a second time, it will pick the first.
I'd like to change this to:
First TAB: Do ...
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Google Search Autofill/complete Disable
Similar question here
When typing in Google Search Bar (Chrome or google.com) the search bar will autocomplete based on previous searches (example below). I would like to disable this.
For example:
I ...
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How to use tab for text auto complete system wide?
Mac OS suggests completions of some text in some instances. A particular example would be when writing an email. The default way to choose the suggested text is to use the downward arrow to highlight ...
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How can I autocomplete file names with special characters in Powershell?
Say I am trying to replace files with placeholder files with the same name. If I have a file called "example.mp4" I can simply type in >Clear-Content e and tab complete from there, but if I have ...
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Chrome doesn't autocomplete URL to sites in history
A month ago I was looking at this site:
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I remember I was looking for one husqarna product. Now when I type husq in the URL, it doesn't autocomplete anything and just tries to search it. Is there a ...
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brew: bash completions broken on macOS
I am using following bash completions installed via brew: bash-completion and bash-completion@2. My .bashrc looks like:
if [ -f /usr/local/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then
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zsh: Autocomplete filenames if no other completion available
Many commands expect a filename as one of their arguments. When hitting tab in bash it autocompletes the filenames of the current directory by default. This is not the case in zsh (oh-my-zsh). How can ...
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