Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 35219
AutoComplete should handle word-case better
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Autocomplete may finish words with a different case to what you are actually typing. Type the following into a document: "MANCHESTER Manchester manchester" Now - ensuring autocomplete is on - start to type "manchester" (ie. lower case) and autocomplete suggests: manCHESTER This is not helpful! :) Autocomplete seems to only collect a word once, and keeps it in whatever case it first saw the word. So if it saw an all-caps version first, any attempt to type that word later in lower or mixed case will auto-complete upper case (and vice-versa for any other type of word case). Obviously this is useless and you have to type the complete word even though OO already knows what it is... I can see two solutions: a) autocomplete remembers the same word separately if the case is different (may fill up the autocomplete list quickly, and won't help you if you want to type the word in a case that it hasn't "seen"). b) (much better) autocomplete makes a "judgement" based on the letters you have already typed as to what the case should be, and adjusts the suggestion accordingly. Simplest way to do this is to look at the last letter typed. If it was lower case, the rest of the suggestion should be lower case, otherwise assume it's an all-caps word. Note this method also works when the first letter (only) is upper case such as at the beginning of a sentence. There may be even better (probably more complex) solutions but (b) above seems trivial to implement (might even make it into 1.1.4?? one can hope..).
reassigned to SBA.
SBA: Reassigned to requirements.
Isn't this a duplicate of bug 22961?
Yes, a dupe of 22961 (I'm reporter of this but don't have permission to dupe it..) btw, still present in 1.9.104...
marking duplicate. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 22961 ***
closing duplicate.