Some questions on automatically completion in lyx.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Saturday, April 22, 2023, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
Where should I file an issue? Also on this list?


> The easiest thing to do for now would be to open that file in LyX.
>
> Riki
>
Zhao



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Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
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