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Autosuggest is an UI feature provided by applications, where the program predicts and shows a list of possible options that the user wants to choose from without the user actually typing it in completely.

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Algorithm for autocomplete?

I am referring to the algorithm that is used to give query suggestions when a user types a search term in Google. I am mainly interested in: 1. Most important results (most likely queries rather than anything that matches) 2. Match substrings 3.…
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Android programmatically disable autocomplete/autosuggest for EditText in emulator

Targeting Android 2.2 I have read the answers to the following questions: Turn off autosuggest for EditText? Android: Multiline & No autosuggest in EditText I have tried the following variations on the…
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.autocomplete is not a function Error

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Can GitHub Copilot stop auto-suggesting, instead be triggered by a keystroke?

I find Github Copilot very helpful in some specific situations, but fairly unhelpful in its verbosity in most situations. By default, it's always on, always suggesting (and frequently getting in my way.) I want it to be less aggressive, disabling…
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How to make a combo box with fulltext search autocomplete support?

I would like a user to be able to type in the second or third word from a TComboBox item and for that item to appear in the AutoSuggest dropdown options For example, a combo box contains the items: Mr John Brown Mrs Amanda Brown Mr Brian Jones …
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Create a autocompleting textbox in Java with a dropdown list

I want to create a auto-suggest text box which would query the database at each key release event. That part is easy, but I want to give nice visual to it. Something similar to the auto-suggest text box we see in websites like searching in…
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Eclipse auto suggest list very slow

By auto suggest, I mean that intellisense that pops up when I write something. My problem is that if I write something like btnMyButton. after typing . I get to wait a few seconds until eclipse populates the list with events for button. I am using…
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jQuery Autocomplete using extraParams to pass additional GET variables

I am referring specifically to the jQuery Autocomplete v1.1 plugin by Jörn Zaefferer [source: http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-autocomplete/] as there seems to be quite a few variations of this plugin. I'm trying to pass additional…
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Fish-style Autosuggestion in Zsh?

Is there a way to do the type of auto-suggestion Fish does in Zsh?
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solr suggester not returning any results

I've followed the solr wiki article for suggester almost to the T here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Suggester. I have the following xml in my solrconfig.xml:
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iOS TextField - autocomplete adds blank character

I have a problem with a UITextField. When I have email autocomplete option enabled, I can select an email from the list, but iOS automatically adds blank space at the end of the text field. Is it an iOS bug or there is something I can do to prevent…
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Algorithm for suggesting products

What's a good algorithm for suggesting things that someone might like based on their previous choices? (e.g. as popularised by Amazon to suggest books, and used in services like iRate Radio or YAPE where you get suggestions by rating items)
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Searching for multiple partial phrases so that one original phrase can not match multiple search phrases

Given a predefined set of phrases, I'd like to perform a search based on user's query. For example, consider the following set of phrases: index phrase ----------------------------------------- 0 Stack Overflow 1 Math…
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Simple Suggestion / Recommendation Algorithm

I am looking for a simple suggestion algorithm to implement in to my Web App. Much like Netflix, Amazon, etc... But simpler. I don't need teams of Phd's working to get a better suggestion metric. So say I have: User1 likes Object1. User2 likes…
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How to correct the user input (Kind of google "did you mean?")

I have the following requirement: - I have many (say 1 million) values (names). The user will type a search string. I don't expect the user to spell the names correctly. So, I want to make kind of Google "Did you mean". This will list all the…
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