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Personally I like auto suggestions like this, but I never want it to interrupt typing, so it should never grab input when you press typing-related keyboard keys

Personally I like auto suggestions like this, but I never want it to interrupt typing, so it should never grab input when you press typing-related keyboard keys, including the enter key, space and arrow keys which you need to move the cursor around. I do not want to have to close boxes that appear at arbitrary times with the esc key to continue regular typing, since the box interrupts flow and there is a reaction time between seeing the box and closing it with esc. It would be ok to me if you have to use another less regularly used key, e.g. tab or ctrl+space, first to get into the suggestion box and then use arrows to select one. This applies also (especially in fact) in code editors, chrome devtools, etc... I wish others felt the same so this feature would be implemented in a less interrupting way by default. I've never seen it implemented in a non-interrupting way in anything ever.

brookst 4y ago
I like the implementation in a bunch of IM clients, at least Teams and iMessage: emojis are treated as autocorrect, so if you type the full text version of the emoji (not just the first character!) it gets replaced with the emoji. In the rare cases it's wrong, hitting escape after the autocorrect fixes it. I don't see why the Google Docs implementation wouldn't work that way. If it really must pop up a box, allow the user to continue typing in document and gradually reduce the list of candidate emojis. As soon as a character is typed that either complete the emoji or rules all of them out, the box goes away.
- happyopossum 4y ago
  The issue is that a very common key to hit after a colon is Enter - which selects the emoji in question. If you simply keep typing other letters, you don't have a problem.
  - brookst 4y ago
    Yes; since emojis don't contain <enter>, in my model it should dismiss the dialog and not do a replacement. The error is in the emoji panel stealing focus so <enter> is seen as a selection in the panel. If they panel did not have focus and keystrokes still went to the main app, this would work fine.
klodolph 4y ago
Yes, at some point I reconfigured autocomplete in to only complete when you press <tab>. I almost never press <tab> otherwise when I’m typing something.
gkoberger 4y ago
I've remapped emojis to `::` and it's been great. Barely more work than `:`, and don't have to deal with a clunky popup when I don't intend it.
nyanpasu64 4y ago
Interestingly, when using Kate as a Markdown editor I'm interrupted by the word-based completion panel popping up, grabbing input, and incorrectly completing words when I press Enter. I wish it either didn't auto-popup or didn't grab input in Markdown mode.
- Aardwolf 4y ago
  In Kate you can turn off auto complete in the Settings, Editing, Auto Completion tab, or set a minimal word length to complete to something long so it's less likely to appear for common letter combinations but still possible for longer words Of course as always no settings to have a way to enable auto completion but not use the standard typing keys :(

brookst 4y ago

I like the implementation in a bunch of IM clients, at least Teams and iMessage: emojis are treated as autocorrect, so if you type the full text version of the emoji (not just the first character!) it gets replaced with the emoji. In the rare cases it's wrong, hitting escape after the autocorrect fixes it. I don't see why the Google Docs implementation wouldn't work that way. If it really must pop up a box, allow the user to continue typing in document and gradually reduce the list of candidate emojis. As soon as a character is typed that either complete the emoji or rules all of them out, the box goes away.

happyopossum 4y ago
The issue is that a very common key to hit after a colon is Enter - which selects the emoji in question. If you simply keep typing other letters, you don't have a problem.
- brookst 4y ago
  Yes; since emojis don't contain <enter>, in my model it should dismiss the dialog and not do a replacement. The error is in the emoji panel stealing focus so <enter> is seen as a selection in the panel. If they panel did not have focus and keystrokes still went to the main app, this would work fine.

klodolph 4y ago

Yes, at some point I reconfigured autocomplete in to only complete when you press <tab>. I almost never press <tab> otherwise when I’m typing something.

gkoberger 4y ago

I've remapped emojis to `::` and it's been great. Barely more work than `:`, and don't have to deal with a clunky popup when I don't intend it.

nyanpasu64 4y ago

Interestingly, when using Kate as a Markdown editor I'm interrupted by the word-based completion panel popping up, grabbing input, and incorrectly completing words when I press Enter. I wish it either didn't auto-popup or didn't grab input in Markdown mode.

Aardwolf 4y ago
In Kate you can turn off auto complete in the Settings, Editing, Auto Completion tab, or set a minimal word length to complete to something long so it's less likely to appear for common letter combinations but still possible for longer words Of course as always no settings to have a way to enable auto completion but not use the standard typing keys :(