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Inline predictive text is an anti-feature that disrupts your flow of thought. I've tried but cannot understand how anyone could actually want this. Edit: I was
by danjc 3y ago
Inline predictive text is an anti-feature that disrupts your flow of thought. I've tried but cannot understand how anyone could actually want this.
Edit: I was referring to writing prose where you're making creative decisions rather than code which is closer to a technical document.
In code things are different. Traditional intellisense is usually just filtering a small set of possibilities. For example, auto completion of a reference to a variable.
This is different to code prediction where for example, a variable name will be suggested.
I can see value in code prediciton ala Copilot but personally don't use it.
- dchest 3y agoI loved it in OpenOffice Writer in early 2000s: type a couple of letters and press Enter to complete. Same with autocomplete when programming.
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- Roark66 3y agoMy favourite input app on android does real time autocorrect by displaying 3 most likely predictions on a bar above the keyboard. So it is not really inline. With programming IDEs when I can I configure them to display suggestions below the text I type, but if there is no such setting I don't find inline autocomplete bothersome at all. (as long as it displays it's prediction in dark shade of grey or another color sufficiently different from the text I typed, also there has to be a special key to accept the suggestion, like tab, no "enter accept")