Debian Bug report logs - #242528
Configurable autocomplete treshhold

Reply or subscribe to this bug.

Display info messages

Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: gnumeric: Autocomplete does not work

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:19:42 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Package: gnumeric
Version: 1.2.6-1
Severity: normal

All gnumeric versions I know of ((pre-)Woody, also testing) had
autocomplete, i.e. filling in a value in a column where it was already
available would be shown while I typed, e.g.
In B4 I have "Spain"
when I got to B5 and type "S" gnumeric would offer me (after a brief
pause) Spain, where "pain" was highlighted.

This no longer happens. I went to "File->Preferences->Various and in
"Autocomplete" there is "TRUE" written. I tried to set it to FALSE and
then again to TRUE, but this did not help. Restarting gnumeric helped
neither, nor switching languaes (C <-> German).

Since the online help (yelp) is still broken I cannot research there
for info.

Later I recognized, that autocomplete works partially, i.e. if I type enough
letters (currently 3), e.g. "Spa" then suddenly autocompletion works. 

If this is indeed a "feature" then please change this bug (or I can do it) to 
a whishlist bug to restore the old behaviour, which was quite handy: if
the completion was wrong, I continued typing until it was right. Now I
always have to type at least 3 letters -- which kind of defeats the purpose
since I then often typed more than 50& of the word.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux 2.4.21-pre1
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages gnumeric depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gsfonts                     6.0-2.2      Fonts for the ghostscript interpre
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.2-1      A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6.1                     2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                     0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1              2.2.1-13     generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.1.7-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-3    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 2.0.1-6      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-4      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0          2.4.2-4      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0        2.4.2-1      The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-5    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-4      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-3.1   GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgsf-1                    1.8.2-5      Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-1    Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                     2.6.7-1      GNOME XML library
ii  xlibs                       4.2.1-12.1   X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information
-- 
Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys.               [email protected]
  gpg signed mail preferred    gpg-key: finger [email protected]
    64bit GNU powered                  http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm
       Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/

[Message part 2 (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Bug#242528: gnumeric: Autocomplete does not work

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:21:21 +0200

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:19:42 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Since the online help (yelp) is still broken I cannot research there
> for info.

Please file a separate report for that. I'm not aware of anything broken in
the online help currently.

> Later I recognized, that autocomplete works partially, i.e. if I type
> enough letters (currently 3), e.g. "Spa" then suddenly autocompletion
> works. 
> 
> If this is indeed a "feature" then please change this bug (or I can do it) to 
> a whishlist bug to restore the old behaviour, which was quite handy: if
> the completion was wrong, I continued typing until it was right.

It is intended as a feature; see
	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140988&archive=yes

Ray
-- 
Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing toward oblivion.
	Dogbert

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#242528: gnumeric: Autocomplete does not work

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:48:01 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hello,
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:21:21PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:19:42 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > Since the online help (yelp) is still broken I cannot research there
> > for info.
> 
> Please file a separate report for that. I'm not aware of anything broken in
> the online help currently.

I remember seeing a bug when I first discovered it for yelp, but now
its gone, but http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207439
looks similar. I will write a bug report over the weekend.

> > Later I recognized, that autocomplete works partially, i.e. if I type
> > enough letters (currently 3), e.g. "Spa" then suddenly autocompletion
> > works. 
> > 
> > If this is indeed a "feature" then please change this bug (or I can do it) to 
> > a whishlist bug to restore the old behaviour, which was quite handy: if
> > the completion was wrong, I continued typing until it was right.
> 
> It is intended as a feature; see
> 	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=140988&archive=yes

As far as I understand the original bug report, the problem was that
in the reported case autocompletion was very dangerous, because of
lots of similar texts (here: grades). So IMHO in this case
autocompletion should be turned off, not crippled. 

Also on
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2002-April/msg00044.html
there was the suggestion of different keys for using autocompletion,
something I think is *very* sensible, as I have (seldom) run into this
problem as well.

The current solution (autocompletion only after 3 characters) is
neither fish nor meat. So if I want to type

Latin
and previously typed
Latin Language

then I still (always) get "Latin". 

In my case I have lots of more or less long words, but which are
quite different.
It is very convenient to only type the first (or first two) for
autocompletion. I usualy type slowly and hit right (though as
suggested some other key is more sensible) to accept. 

So sensible quick fix:
*Change to the autcompletion entry to 
 "Minimum number of characters for autocompletion (-1 to turn it off)"

This would aproximatly yield the current behaviour. Long term goal
would be to change the autocompletion-accept-key. This would avoid the
clumpsy "escape from autocompletion" mentioned in the gnome-thread.

I'll change this bug to wishlist and an appropriate title in a second.

Greetings

            Helge
-- 
Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys.               [email protected]
  gpg signed mail preferred    gpg-key: finger [email protected]
    64bit GNU powered                  http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm
       Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/

[Message part 2 (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Message #32 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: [email protected] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#242528: fixed in gnumeric 1.7.13-1

Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:47:07 +0000

Source: gnumeric
Source-Version: 1.7.13-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnumeric, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gnumeric-common_1.7.13-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-common_1.7.13-1_all.deb
gnumeric-doc_1.7.13-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-doc_1.7.13-1_all.deb
gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.7.13-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.7.13-1_i386.deb
gnumeric_1.7.13-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.7.13-1.diff.gz
gnumeric_1.7.13-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.7.13-1.dsc
gnumeric_1.7.13-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.7.13-1_i386.deb
gnumeric_1.7.13.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.7.13.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gnumeric package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:54:09 +0200
Source: gnumeric
Binary: gnumeric-doc gnumeric-common gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extra
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.7.13-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>
Description: 
 gnumeric   - GNOME spreadsheet application
 gnumeric-common - common files for Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet application
 gnumeric-doc - documentation for Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet application
 gnumeric-plugins-extra - additional plugins for the GNOME spreadsheet
Closes: 238944 242528 284720 286117 286523 305399 336011 341262 374192 392670 396674 405385 406019 408068 441672
Changes: 
 gnumeric (1.7.13-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
   * Upload to unstable. The 1.6.x series is no longer being developed and
     upstream consensus is that 1.7.x is now more stable than 1.6.x.
     * Close bugs already marked as fixed in experimental or fixed upstream.
       (Closes: #238944, #242528, #341262, #408068)
     * Close bugs relating to components which have undergone near complete
       overhaul (printing, charts).
       (Closes: #284720, #286117, #286523, #336011, #374192, #392670, #396674, #405385, #406019)
   * Fixed upstream:
     * Title elements in charts are preserved when exporting as .xls and
       re-importing. (Closes: #305399)
   * [debian/control]
     * Bumped goffice build dependency per configure.in .
     * Added XS-Vcs-Svn, XS-Vcs-Browser.
   * [debian/po/sk.po] Added Slovak translation courtesy of Ivan Masár
     <[email protected]>. (Closes: #441672).
Files: 
 bae1bd6a9d514cfe7e185ea8bfdd6b91 1386 math optional gnumeric_1.7.13-1.dsc
 9aeb6daade5700efd38b46822216d187 18278287 math optional gnumeric_1.7.13.orig.tar.gz
 dc0e4502eac4c7d13261e8a5d9347e9d 42290 math optional gnumeric_1.7.13-1.diff.gz
 e5ddbd297d15ebf82b4ab4990ad1f58a 5256712 math optional gnumeric-common_1.7.13-1_all.deb
 48e32e600d0dcf7c43484ff11013b3c6 4104590 doc optional gnumeric-doc_1.7.13-1_all.deb
 84ca74bd0979765200921aed1df582a6 2212614 math optional gnumeric_1.7.13-1_i386.deb
 d324a183be7d19ef428ecabd4aeb9114 147482 math optional gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.7.13-1_i386.deb

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHG6bgA+HB2Re6Rc4RAr6RAJ9Cpyq1gSWBGqXf8P9qAWZQmU3KwwCgnJgO
8wBllr7hgtFKJNrRWtKmig8=
=rx9T
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Message #37 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: [email protected] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#242528: fixed in gnumeric 1.8.0-1

Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:47:16 +0000

Source: gnumeric
Source-Version: 1.8.0-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnumeric, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gnumeric-common_1.8.0-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-common_1.8.0-1_all.deb
gnumeric-doc_1.8.0-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-doc_1.8.0-1_all.deb
gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
gnumeric_1.8.0-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.8.0-1.diff.gz
gnumeric_1.8.0-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.8.0-1.dsc
gnumeric_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
gnumeric_1.8.0.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_1.8.0.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gnumeric package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:57:51 +0100
Source: gnumeric
Binary: gnumeric-doc gnumeric-common gnumeric gnumeric-plugins-extra
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 1.8.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]>
Description: 
 gnumeric   - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program
 gnumeric-common - spreadsheet application for GNOME - common files
 gnumeric-doc - spreadsheet application for GNOME - documentation
 gnumeric-plugins-extra - spreadsheet application for GNOME - additional plugins
Closes: 242528 305399 341262 353811 395051 408068 416110 447219 455223 456798 458006 458006
Changes: 
 gnumeric (1.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream stable release, building on top of goffice 0.6.
     (Closes: #458006)
   * [doc/C/gnumeric-C.omf] Taken from svn as it is missing in the upstream
     tarball.
   * Upstream changes in this release include:
     * Fixed paired t-test [gnome #504256]. (Closes: #456798)
   * [debian/copyright, debian/gnumeric-doc.copyright] Updated.
   * [debian/control]
     * Build depend on new goffice packages (as per configure.in).
       (Closes: #458006)
     * Updated Standards-Version.
   * [debian/po/de.po] Updated translation. Thanks Johannes Starosta
     <[email protected]>. (Closes: #455223)
 .
   Gnumeric bugs cleanup:
   * Several issues were fixed during the 1.7.x development series:
     * Title elements in charts are lost when saving in xls format.
       (Closes: #305399)
     * "x_order_2: colinear!" message when showing Help -> About.
       (Closes: #341262)
     * Autocomplete should be more configurable. (Closes: #242528)
     * RFE: Quick tab color changer. (Closes: #353811)
     * RFE: Support import of OOXML. (Closes: #408068)
   * Issues which have been tagged as unreproducible for a long time and for
     which no new information regarding them (or new reports of them) has come
     forth:
     * Gnumeric crashes and hangs the entire computer (Closes: #447219)
     * Eats all memory if started with LC_NUMERIC set. (Closes: #395051)
     * XLS plugin is off by default. (Closes: #416110)
     Please reopen them if they can be reproduced with this version.
Files: 
 47c67161b1c4ab4d0c082b3ab29b41a8 1407 math optional gnumeric_1.8.0-1.dsc
 ab16aa6014421551714d94f7614d3329 18407189 math optional gnumeric_1.8.0.orig.tar.gz
 2e5a324aafdf3498dcd6f3807df9e9ea 39551 math optional gnumeric_1.8.0-1.diff.gz
 c3be8b1aea78bdf7a81dab098ad00127 5211814 math optional gnumeric-common_1.8.0-1_all.deb
 7e485faa1246251780c8c58ec5969baa 4090486 doc optional gnumeric-doc_1.8.0-1_all.deb
 d96b7cf76496aeea732187f488874842 2380946 math optional gnumeric_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb
 ec7af9bf6dcc79cba75f25cfea36bbe4 159726 math optional gnumeric-plugins-extra_1.8.0-1_amd64.deb

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHdtcAmGjI2TeZ54cRAsDSAKCOiwO/JdYtMBKqgnktZXWS9Uy/uACfVJss
v/q5FMCLMOAUpe9t4lnMWRw=
=giu1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Send a report that this bug log contains spam.