Suggestion for auto-complete

gers1978 · 05-13-2012, 03:59 AM

In Calibre, I've noticed that if you're typing in a field (say Author), a list of previous typed names drops down. This is great, and expected. However if I use the arrow keys to move down to the name I want and press Tab, the focus simply moves to the next field and leaves what I typed in the Author field, without actually filling in the entry I keyed down to.

It would be nice if Calibre did this. It's the default behaviour all throughout OS X (and I think Windows and Linux too).

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 05-13-2012, 05:15 AM

Press enter instead of tab, there is no convention that Tab must select from a completion list on OS X let alone linux and windows. For example try pressing tab on the spotlight completion list it will switch focus from the list to the text field.

gers1978 · 05-13-2012, 05:30 AM

Cool, thanks, I'll use Enter

05-13-2012, 03:59 AM	#1
gers1978 Addict Posts: 392 Karma: 1008414 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Suggestion for auto-complete In Calibre, I've noticed that if you're typing in a field (say Author), a list of previous typed names drops down. This is great, and expected. However if I use the arrow keys to move down to the name I want and press Tab, the focus simply moves to the next field and leaves what I typed in the Author field, without actually filling in the entry I keyed down to. It would be nice if Calibre did this. It's the default behaviour all throughout OS X (and I think Windows and Linux too). Thanks.

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05-13-2012, 05:15 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Press enter instead of tab, there is no convention that Tab must select from a completion list on OS X let alone linux and windows. For example try pressing tab on the spotlight completion list it will switch focus from the list to the text field.

05-13-2012, 05:30 AM	#3
gers1978 Addict Posts: 392 Karma: 1008414 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	Cool, thanks, I'll use Enter

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