autocomplete list behavouir

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Tue Oct 2 11:03:58 PDT 2012


Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com> writes:
>> I still think that  a lot of people will go back to the same places over
>> and over again... I sure do - but then I may not be typical. My guess
>> is that anyone who does local diving or has a favorite vacation spot
>> will have a rather small set of locations repeat. And very few people
>> will go to hundreds of different dive sites (but again, that could be
>> wrong).
>>
>> Is there anyone with a really strong preference and a good argument
>> one way or another?
>
> $ grep location Miika.xml | sort -u | wc -l
> 111
>
> That is still missing 50 to 150 other sites as I have a few trips that
> only state the country and island, not the dive sites. The current
> list has 28 repeated sites (78 unique ones) plus the few trips that
> are missing the sites altogether (should double or triple the repeated
> dive site count). So you are right, location wise there are people
> doing quite different diving than you.

Oh - don't get me wrong, I have something like 70 unique sites, too.
But on the other hand I have a couple that I keep going back to...

> Anyway, I do not really care if this list is cleared on file close or
> not. However, I think not clearing would be more useful as I'll
> probably be first downloading my own logs and adding the locations..
> then I'll open my wife's log and download her dives. And now it would
> really be beneficial to have the latest locations autocompleted.

That was kind of my thinking, too.

/D


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