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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:20PM (#22066612)
> No one would design an autocomplete for written language

Er... that happens all the time: various word processors, text messaging, etc. Even Google's autocomplete (which is a rare example of autocomplete being really good) is essentially this.

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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:37PM (#22066806)
Ya, I should have written it differently. These aren’t the same things, really. One is about discoverability and the other is about handling input method deficiency. I remember auto completion being really great when using T9 to text on old Nokia handsets, but not because I didn’t know what words I could write.

The right word for that would be code completion or more specific brandings of intellisense, which is completely different from things like T9.

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