Some questions on automatically completion in lyx.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Friday, April 21, 2023, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/20/23 01:03, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
>> 2. How can I enable the normal text completion, say, when I type
>> `coun`, then all the possible words with such prefix should be
>> triggered to display in a popup window.
>>
>
> The possible completions are taken from the documents you have open. You
> activate it under Tools> Preferences> Editing> Input Completion. There are
> options there to control how long it takes until the popup appears, etc. If
> you set the inline completion delay to, say, 1 sec, then hitting Tab will
> show the popup.
>
> This is all in the User Guide, section 2.7.


 But I want to do the completion from a dictionary file on the disk without
opening it, is this possible?

>
> Riki
>
> Best,
Zhao


-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
No. 473, Quannan West Street, Xindu District, Xingtai, Hebei province
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