[Feature request] Autocompletion for internal links
Bug #426771 reported by
Anton Zayats
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zim |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
As many users like the concept of tags (or backlinks in zim) it would be great to have an autocompletion feature.
The possible scenario:
User enters double square brackets and dropdown appears with all wikiwords. As he prints more characters the dropdown filters only those which start with that characters. User can choose an existing link from the dropdown or ignore it and continue with his own.
However I'm not sure if this kind of control exists in Gtk.
Revision history for this message
| Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in zim: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| tags: | added: usability |
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Although not completely the same, we already have autocomplete for page names when you use the "insert link" dialog.
It is not impossible to have such an inline dropdown box - you see this regularly in code editors - but not something that will go high on my list. Feel free to dive into it though and come up with a patch. Would say this could be done without to much difficulty by a programmer that knows python and Gtk. Zim will easily give you a list of page names, so most work is doing the actual widget interaction.