---- Reported by ramzi@gafouri.net 2004-05-20 15:28:11 MST ----

The completion list should automatically disappear when a full match has
been made when the user chooses to type the whole match and not use the
list. This way the user does not need to press a key to get rid of the list
before he/she can continue typing.



---- Additional Comments From tberman@gentoo.org 2004-05-20 15:46:33 MST ----

I am hesitant to implement this for two reasons. One is
implementation, the other is not.

First the implementation reason. Because of how our setup works, with
the greyed out completion text and whatnot, when you have 4 of 6
letters of a word typed, and move in the list to a word that has 3
letters, all 3 become 'typed'. This behaviour is easy to change (in
fact, it was hard to implement, changing it to go back to 0 would be a
lot easier), however I found that in the testing I did, it felt far
more natural the way it is now. With this implemented, you would
either have that move now completing the word, not just moving up or
down, which is insane (from my perspective), or you would have to
define rules to the 'auto-complete the full word' where it would work
on a keypress but not when the list is manipulated with the arrow keys
or mouse (which is better than the other option). Neither seems
optimal in my opinion, but I would love to hear arguments contrary.

The second is my experience (limited) with other ides. None of them
seem to do this, and I assume for good reason. To me, dismissing a
dialog like that only makes sense if there is an assurance the user no
longer wants to see it (Return, Tab, Escape, etc). Having it complete
when you happen to match a word could be confusing.

However, if this is something that is requested, I can look at
spending some time (post mono 1.0) on putting this in place.



---- Additional Comments From tberman@gentoo.org 2004-06-25 20:48:54 MST ----

After some more thinking, this is not feasible. marking WONTFIX


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