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Autocomplete

Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing. In Android and iOS smartphones, this is called predictive text. In graphical user interfaces, users can typically press the tab key to accept a suggestion or the down arrow key to accept one of several.

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Autocomplete

Nodes92
Edges91
Triples104
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021739
Components1

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Autocomplete

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related to Types of autocomplete tools · 13
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related to External links · 11
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related to In source code editors · 10
Autocomplete → An, Another, Autocompletion, In, It, Microsoft's IntelliSense, There, Therefore, This, Typing
related to Description · 8
Autocomplete → AAC, Along, At, If, In, Some, When, Word
related to In command-line interpreters · 8
Autocomplete → For, Here, If, In, PowerShell, Tab, Unix's, Windows's
related to history · 6
Autocomplete → According, Chinese, In, Stanford University, The, Thomas Mullaney
related to In e-mail programs · 6
Autocomplete → For, Generally, Google's Gmail, In, Like, Microsoft Outlook Express
related to In search engines · 6
Autocomplete → Google, In, Levenshtein, Soundex, The, This
related to Autocorrection · 5
Autocomplete → Al Rahman, Autocorrection, Lee John Nikolai François, Several, This
related to In database query tools · 5
Autocomplete → As, Autocompletion, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio, The

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word user words text completion typing search needed used prediction list also code often citation feature software web programs source

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Opera automatically autofill credit card informationinstance ofthus leaving the selection of names up to each browser's implementation.Certain web browsers0.80text
addresses.An individual webpage may enable or disable browser autofill by defaultinstance ofthus leaving the selection of names up to each browser's implementation.Certain web browsers0.80text
the user's phone number to be collected.HTML has adatalistelement that can be used to feed an input element with autocompletionsinstance ofwhich allows personal information0.80text
phonetic Soundex algorithms or the language independent Levenshtein algorithminstance ofThis type of search often relies on matching algorithms that forgive entry errors0.80text
scaminstance ofAutocomplete has now become a part of reputation management as companies linked to negative search terms0.80text
complaintsinstance ofAutocomplete has now become a part of reputation management as companies linked to negative search terms0.80text
fraud seek to alter the resultsinstance ofAutocomplete has now become a part of reputation management as companies linked to negative search terms0.80text
Emacsinstance ofas do advanced text editors0.80text
Vim.Apache OpenOffice Writerinstance ofas do advanced text editors0.80text
LibreOffice Writer have a working word completion program that proposes words previously typed in the textinstance ofas do advanced text editors0.80text
rather than from the whole dictionaryMicrosoft Excel spreadsheet application has a working word completion program that proposes words previously typed in upper cellsIn command-line interpretersIn a command-line interpreterinstance ofas do advanced text editors0.80text
such as Unix's sh or bashinstance ofas do advanced text editors0.80text

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