Questions tagged [autocomplete]
About using and customizing the front-end's auto-completion feature
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Disable trivial suggestions
Mathematica 14.2 likes to autocomplete words that are already complete. Is there a way to disable such trivial suggestions that have already been typed?
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Is Association key autocompletion possible?
Not much to add to the question. I'm not looking for function autocompletion which is described in several posts, particularly 56984.
I find myself constantly doing ...
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Dataset key name autocomplete
I am working with a large dataset with over 100 keys. When writing queries, I would like to get autocompletion for the key names. My current approach is:
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How to change Mathematica 14 preferences by modifying application file(s), rather than by using the graphical user interface (GUI)?
I'm running Mathematica 14 on Windows 11. Is there a way to modify Mathematica's preferences by modifying one or more application files, rather than using Mathematica's graphical user interface (GUI) ...
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Bind a key to show autocompletion
I've searched for a feature which is usually available in most IDEs where you are able to de-activate autocomplete and by pressing a key, usually Tab, the autocompletion pops up and you can either ...
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Automatic evaluation of a function for variable values defined from different data tables in the attachments
I want to evaluate a function whose variable values are defined in different data files. I want to know that how can I write code such that when the function's evaluation is exhausted for one table, ...
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Where are user-defined usage messages stored in the front-end for autocomplete stored -- and how can I clear them out?
I am writing some code which automatically sets the usage messages for a function, and I am having some trouble iterating on it, particularly in getting it to work correctly in the autocomplete.
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Autocomplete doesn't work when the CellContext is set to be Notebook (Mathematica 13.3)
I am using mathematica 13.3. When the CellContext option is "Global" the autocomplete works fine. I would like to have individual variable in each notebook, so I use the following command:
<...
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Is it possible to set autocompletion, when the variable name starts with $, ignore it?
I need to use variables like \$ + capital letters(\$A,\$B,...) frequently in a project, the default autocomplete always pops up automatically, in most cases, it's a distraction. Can we set Mathematica ...
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Auto completion starting from anywhere in the name
Edit: After reading the last answer from the related question mentioned below I saw that it was all I needed.
What I would like
I would like to type Comp and automatically see auto complete ...
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Autocomplete in Mathematica 13
Bug introduced in 13.0.0
If I type f[x_Inte and hit Tab to autocomplete, MMA correctly autocompletes this into f[x_Integer.
But ...
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New Needs alias - How to make autocomplete works
Mathematica 13 has a cool new feature for Needs. Now it's possible to use alias:
Here is a simple doc example:
The problem is, the autocomplete do not work for ...
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Nonlinear Model Fitting to Numerical Data with automatic elimination
I have an experimental data set {f,x,y,z} as
{{300., 2., 4., 6.}, {500., 0., 4., 25.}, {6600., 1., 15., 9.}, {100.,
5., 0., 2.}, {1100., 10., 8., 1.}, {1300., 7., 8., 18.}, {300.,
23., 5., 0.}, {400....
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How to use the autocomplete for built-in function's argument for a user defined symbol?
Suppose I have myFunction as follows:
ClearAll[myFunction];
myFunction[unitName_,somethingElse_]:=...definition...;
I want to ...
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Autocomplete popup slow (>= v12.2)
On my Windows systems, the autocomplete popup takes extremely long to appear (1-2 secs). This makes typing in Mathematica very uncomfortable for me, as the interface effectively freezes for these 1-2 ...
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