Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 30996
Autocompletion for directory name (but maybe not filename) in save as dialogue
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:30 UTC
This is a follow-up to issue #30166 <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30166>. OOo 1.1.2 autocompletes when attempting to load a file, but when attempting to save a file. I understand that you might not want users being able to so easily overwrite existing files, but I suggest that autocompletion for *directory* names would be quite useful and unlikely to result in unintentional overwrite (the worst case, I suppose, is that you unintentionally enter another directory). Perhaps the autocompletion code doesn't currently distinguish between directory and filenames, so maybe this wouldn't be trivial to implement, but if it's easy to do, I think it would be quite useful. You could also have an option/preference for allowing autocomplete on "Save As." I think Linux users in particular are accustomed to autocompletion in all contexts. If I'm not mistaken, recent GNOME applications will autocomplete with tab for both load and save.
reassigned to bh
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