Some questions on automatically completion in lyx.

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 4/20/23 20:54, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> 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?

No. You can file an enhancement request if you wish. The easiest thing 
to do for now would be to open that file in LyX.

Riki

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