Questions tagged [autocomplete]
For questions about the various autocomplete features on Stack Exchange, e.g. when mentioning users in comments or chat messages.
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Why is there no autocomplete for pinging editors?
I hope this example shows why autocomplete would be useful beyond the comfort of the commenter:
I recently had an issue where someone edited a post (which I'm not the author of) only to add one extra ...
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Provide autocomplete for magic links in the comment editor
There are a ton of magic links which expand in the comments, some of which are main, meta, or community specific, and some which are templatized (on the surface, I'm not sure if they are explicitly ...
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Please allow non-Unicode named editors be pinged with autocomplete
Currently, you can @reply to any person with the auto complete. Normally, you type the first letter of their name then use Tab to finish it.
Unicode names work differently, you don't have to start ...
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Improve location of username autocompletion in comments on the responsive design
When I a @-mention another user in a comment on my mobile phone, using the full responsive version, the suggested username is on the top left of the comment field. At this location it is very close to ...
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Can we get username auto-complete without a ping?
I'm frequently in the Android chatroom. Part of our rules (based on many people's preferences) is that excessive use of @User pings is forbidden/discouraged. It would be nice if there was an alternate ...
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Effectiveness of suggested answers?
Does anybody have some data on how effective the suggested answers are in preventing people from asking duplicate questions?
While some people make an effort to search, some people will click the "...
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Autocomplete username references in answer posts
It would be nice if the @username autocomplete idea for comments could be extended to answer posts. Although, what I'd really like to see is a faster way to reference other people's answers to a given ...
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Please autocomplete @User2 even if you only notify @User1
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I know that @replying to more than one user in a comment is not allowed as explained in this answer. I've always hated that and thought that there are valid use-cases for mentioning two ...
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Prioritize the beginning of the tag and of words in tag autocompletion
The tag autocompletion could be improved in my opinion by putting a higher priority on matching at the beginning of the tag and at the beginning of word boundaries (as separated by a dash in tags).
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Could the tags autocomplete widget please show more than six options?
When specifying the tags when asking/editing a question, it seems that there is a constraint to show a maximum of six matches, which really is awfully unhelpful if you are trying to find the most ...
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Fix alignment of auto-complete box for @mentions
This was hard to search for, so I apologize in advance if it is a duplicate.
Currently, the Auto-complete box for the @mentions is at the extreme left of the comment box. This is great if you are ...
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Pressing Enter should simply insert a space when adding wildcard tags
When I enter in something into the favorites or ignored input i get something that looks like this:
When I press Enter after this point, the system pulls up the dropdown, chooses the first ...
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Auto-add site to "Your Communities" when clicking autocomplete
Steps to reproduce:
Click Stack Exchange logo for dropdown in the top left of the SE bar
Click edit to the right of Your Communities
Start typing the name of any SE site that isn't present in the ...
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Verify @user in comment was entered correctly
Is there some way to verify if an @user tag in a comment was correctly entered (meaning that the user was appropriately notified)?
I am aware of the auto-complete feature that is present when ...
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