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Google Maps used to do this, and when I entered "9831 Main St, Funky Town" once and a day later I would not remember the street number. Entering "Main" would not give me what I wanted.
Google Maps does what I want now AFAICT and entering "Main" will return "9831 Main St, Funky Town" first.
One rule I always consider important: > If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match. I find these types of inductive rules might be a better way to express how autocomplete should work (given a limited universe of suggestions).
How would this not always be the case anyway given the other rules in place?
One rule I always consider important: > If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match. I find these types of inductive rules might be a better way to express how autocomplete should work (given a limited universe of suggestions).
> If I type the next letter of the top match, it should remain the top match. How would this not always be the case anyway given the other rules in place?
Even then its hard to even define the next letter. With sub-sequence matching something like "gsl" might be displayed as "[g]et[D]isplay[L]ist" with items in brackets highlighted. No real next letter in this case.
Please add to the list: Auto detect language! It’s super frustrating when you try to write to your German friend and autocorrect just keeps mutilating perfectly good German words into gibberish (e.g. it’s trying to autocorrect to English etc. default language).
Great list. Easy to follow. I will be using this next time i write an auto complete My only objection would be > Autocompletion to the nearest ambiguous prefix. If I type “g” and that matches both “Google” and “GoodReads”, this operation would fill in the two “o”s, allowing me to then type either “g” or “d” to select the option I want. Dont change the input as i am typing otherwise you qill get 4 o's. Show it as an o…
I think I have seen this implemented before and when it inserts the extra 'oo' it automatically ignores extra 'o's that might be typed. It allows for users to actually type Google, but also allows users to type 'Ggle' and get the same response.
"[G]" "[G]" Please add to the list: Auto detect language! It’s super frustrating when you try to write to your German friend and autocorrect just keeps mutilating perfectly good German words into gibberish (e.g. it’s trying to autocorrect to English etc. default language).
This is talking about search auto-completion and not spelling auto-correct.
I'd change this to "never change the positions of already visible elements when the person is not typing". Typing something, then trying to click/tap on a result that disappears and gets replaced by something else is infuriating.