Autocompletion allows you to type the first few letters of a commonly used word (often technical or job specific), and tell KWord to finish typing the word for you. This is often very useful when you have lengthy technical words.
Using autocompletion could not be easier. Simply type the first few letters of the word you want KWord to finish, and press Ctrl-E. KWord will look through the list of autocompletion words and if it finds a word which begins with those letters, it will finish entering the remainder of the word.
KWord maintains a list of words for each user that will be used for autocompletion.
You can add words to this list one of two ways:
KWord can automatically add new words to the completion list for later approval. This is selected using the dialog.
Individual words can be added to the list by using the dialog.
To configure autocompletion, select -> from the menubar. This will bring up a dialog.
It is used to toggle autocompletion on and off.
By clicking this button you can manually add an individual word to the completion list.
To remove words from the completion list, select the word with the
mouse button from the list, then click this button.This option will add any word equal to or longer than the Characters needed: to the list of proposed autocompletion words.
The large listbox in the center of the dialog contains the current proposed list of autocompletion words.
Not all words listed in the list box will be immediatly affected by autocompletion when entered into this dialog.
If this option is enabled, a tool tip box will appear when you type the beginning of a word that exists in the completion list. To complete the word, press the key you set to accept suggestions in the Key to accept suggestion: drop-down list.
Use this spinbox/slider combination to prevent KWord from automatically adding short words to the completion list. You can select any value from 5-100 and the words will need to be at least the number of characters set here to be added in the list.
This spinbox/slider combination can be adjusted to allow more or less words into the autocompletion list. This option is most important when Automatically add new words to suggestion list is enabled. This option keeps the list from becoming too cumbersome. You can select any value from 1 to 500.
If checked, it adds a single space to the end of a word after autocompletion, this means it is not necessary to add the space manually for the next word.
Set the key you want to use when an autocompleted word is suggested to you and you want to accept it. You can choose Enter, Tab, Space, End or Right.
A word is not part of autocompletion until the list is saved to disk. At that moment, KWord will use that saved list for all autocompletion, until the list is replaced with another saved list.
Some of the words in the autocompletion list may not have been saved yet.
To save the current list to disk and have KWord begin using this new list for autocompletion, click this button.
Click to save your options. Click to abort all changes. Click to reset to the state after you clicked on the button.
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