Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9380
WordCompletion should propose most-used words first
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:40:42 UTC
The autocomplete function can easily be more functional if it would count and prioritise words that have a similar beginning. The more a word is in a document, the higher should be it's autocomplete priority. Currently, if I have a document containing 'distribution' 10 times and 'distribute' 1 time, before 'distribution', OO will constantly suggest 'distribute' every time I write 'distr...' until I come to 'distributi...'. And that's a bit late. I would like OO to suggest 'distribution' instead. Which is easy, if based on the number of times it is in the document.
Reassigned to Bettina.
In 1.1Beta2 this same thing happens. It seems to go in Alphabetical order instead of by how many times it is used in a document. Thanks.
I am confirming this issue.
SBA: I changed the summary. Reasons: 1. To SUMMARIZE the description (instead of the submitters feelings :-) Note that a summary's purpose is to summarize (and not to be a "catchy line") - This is an issue tracker and not a newspaper... 2. Tto be useful in terms of "have strings relevant to the subject in the summary in order to ease queries" (That's why I stumbled into this one again) 3. The old summary ("autocomplete could be more intelligent") sounds a little like "stupid implementation" :-)
I understand what you mean, but at the same time you have to be careful about how you implement it. I.e. if 'distribution' appears 2 times and 'distribute' appears 1 time, it could be very frustrating to see 'distribution' when you want 'distribute'. An option could be to display a different sugestion when the user hits the down arrow key. (Just a suggestion)
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".