Some questions on automatically completion in lyx.
Hongyi Zhao
hongyi.zhao at gmail.com
Fri Apr 21 23:55:12 UTC 2023
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 7:06 AM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Saturday, April 22, 2023, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 4/20/23 20:54, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
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>> On Friday, April 21, 2023, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 4/20/23 01:03, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> This is all in the User Guide, section 2.7.
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>> But I want to do the completion from a dictionary file on the disk without opening it, is this possible?
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>> No. You can file an enhancement request if you wish.
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> Where should I file an issue? Also on this list?
I've filed an enhancement request on lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org:
from:Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com>
to:lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org
date:Apr 22, 2023, 7:53 AM
subject:Support the normal text completion.
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>> The easiest thing to do for now would be to open that file in LyX.
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>> Riki
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