Re: auto text / autocomplete

From: Alan Horkan <horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 21:41:34 CEST

> over again. MS Word allows me to add custom "auto
> text" linked to their autocomplete function -- so that

> Can I do this in ABIword?

Not as far as I know.

> I realize that's not exactly
> a simple feature, and perhaps not in "keeping" with
> the spirit of the program, but any thoughts?

Bad implementations of this feature have put many people off it
completely but it is clearly useful and I expect it will be implemented
eventually but who knows who long that might be.

it has been a long requested feature:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2322

> I've tried to come up with work arounds -- i.e. having

I'm hoping the developers can suggest some better workarounds.

- Alan
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